Amici File More Than 3 Dozen Briefs In Support Of Birthright Citizenship

( March 3, 2026, 2:27 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A large group of professors are the latest amici curiae to file a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting arguments by a class of parents that the citizenship clause in the 14th Amendment guarantees U.S. citizenship to “virtually all children born in the United States . . . regardless of their parents’ immigration status or domicile”; more than three dozen briefs supporting the position of the respondents have been filed in the case challenging President Donald J. Trump’s January 2025 executive order (EO) that declared that children born in the United States are not citizens when their mother is “unlawfully present in the United States” or their mother’s presence is “temporary” and their father is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident....

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