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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Joseph Stepansky

US Supreme Court grills Trump administration over birthright citizenship

People protest on the day the Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments related to US President Donald Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship in the United States [Nathan Howard/Reuters]

Washington, DC – Justices at the US Supreme Court have questioned lawyers representing the administration of US President Donald Trump and those challenging his effort to end birthright citizenship in the country.

The hearing on Thursday represented the first time the top court in the United States has heard a case related to Trump’s January 20 order seeking to do away with the more-than-century-old policy, which grants citizenship to nearly all infants born on US soil, regardless of their parents’ legal status.

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