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The Trump administration in June filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, a move that could redefine a long-standing constitutional guarantee. That appeal has not yet been docketed, but justices are expected in coming weeks to decide whether to hear the case, according to Fox News.

According to CNN, the filing by Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that the prevailing interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment is “mistaken” and has had “destructive consequences.” Sauer wrote that lower-court rulings against the order improperly conferred “the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people.”

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