President Donald Trump’s attempt to unilaterally redefine who gets to be an American citizen through his narrow, historically revisionist lens was not likely to stand a chance in court.
Trump marched to the Supreme Court Wednesday to hear his administration’s defense of his attempts to strike down the country’s long-standing principle of birthright citizenship, jolting the United States back to the virulent nativism that fueled the Civil War and a tide of anti-immigrant views in its aftermath.
