WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it would hear a landmark dispute over the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.

The legal fight stems from an executive order signed by the president on his first day back in office declaring that children born to immigrants in the country illegally and to some temporary foreign residents would no longer be granted citizenship automatically.

The executive order, which was immediately paused by courts without going into effect, would upend the commonly accepted view of American citizenship guaranteed since 1898: that citizenship should be extended to anyone born in the United States. It could throw into doubt the citizenship of hundreds of thousands of babies born each year.

The court has n

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