Donald Trump’s attempt to unilaterally rewrite the Constitution to determine who gets to be an American is relying on century-old legal arguments from white supremacists, a former Confederate officer and a case that denied citizenship to Native Americans, critics have warned.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments April 1 over the president’s executive order that attempts to deny citizenship to American-born children of certain immigrants, a far-reaching attempt to upend long-settled law that grants citizenship to most people born in the country.
