The Trump administration on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of President’s executive order for ending birthright citizenship.

Despite more than a century of understanding that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on people born in the United States, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court that notion was “mistaken" and that the view became “pervasive, with destructive consequences," CNN reported.

“The lower court’s decisions invalidated a policy of prime importance to the president and his administration in a manner that undermines our border security," Solicitor General D John Sauer, the administration’s top appellate attorney, told the Supreme Court in the appeal. “Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of America

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