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News: 2025

May 15.   Charlie Savage: Supreme Court debates Trump’s bid to restrict US birthright citizenship.

May 15.   Nina Totenberg: A once-fringe theory on birthright citizenship comes to the Supreme Court.

May 15.   Alexandra Villarreal: What is US birthright citizenship and why is it being disputed at the supreme court? Trump’s January order aimed to end the right to citizenship for some children born in the US.

June 4.   Nate Raymond: Trump’s birthright citizenship order to face first US appeals court review.

June 4.   Devan Cole & Molly Reinmann: DOJ presses federal appeals court to reverse ruling blocking Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.

June 27.  Ann E. Marimow: Supreme Court limits nationwide orders that have blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship ban.

June 27.  Nina Totenberg: Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship order.

June 27.  David Firestone: The Supreme Court’s Intolerable Ruling.

June 27.  Robert McCoy: Sotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling.

June 30.  Claire Wang: As Trump targets birthright citizenship, the terrain is once again ‘women’s bodies and sexuality’. From 22 Chinese women detained in 1874 for being ‘lewd and debauched’, experts point to a grim US tradition.

July 10.  David Nakamura: Federal judge places new block on Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship. Judge Joseph Laplante issued the temporary injunction after agreeing to certify a class-action lawsuit against the administration on behalf of U.S.-born children or future children.

2024

December 9.   Rebecca Santana: Trump promises to end birthright citizenship: What is it and could he do it?