The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a major test of President Trump’s power to reshape one of the bedrock rules of American citizenship: the promise that almost anyone born on US soil is a citizen from birth.

At issue is an executive order Trump signed on his first day back in office. The directive said that children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants, and to some categories of temporary foreign residents, would no longer automatically receive citizenship. Federal judges in several states immediately blocked the policy nationwide, calling it unconstitutional before it ever took effect, the New York Times reported.

By taking the case, the court is stepping into a clash that goes to the heart of how the 14th amendment has been understood for more than a century. A rul

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