White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated the Trump administration’s place Tuesday that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional and that they’re ready to take the problem to the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
Leavitt, who’s the youngest White Home press secretary in U.S. historical past at 27 years outdated, echoed Vice President JD Vance, who drew widespread protection over the weekend for additionally defending President Donald Trump’s govt order on the topic.
“This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, and that’s the reason President Trump signed that govt order,” Leavitt mentioned throughout her first press briefing earlier than the White Home Press Corps.
Get Our Newest Information for FREE
Subscribe to get each day/weekly electronic mail with the highest tales (plus particular affords!) from The Christian Put up. Be the primary to know.
“Unlawful immigrants who come to this nation and have a baby should not topic to the legal guidelines of this jurisdiction. That is the opinion of this administration,” she added.
The White Home is ready to attraction the non permanent restraining order in opposition to Trump’s govt order by a federal decide in Seattle, and is keen to struggle “all the way in which to the Supreme Court docket,” she added.
.@PressSec: “This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.” pic.twitter.com/5zS9ViwY3x
— Fast Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 28, 2025
Throughout his first day in workplace, Trump signed an govt order titled “Defending The Which means And Worth Of American Citizenship,” which mentioned, “the Fourteenth Modification has by no means been interpreted to increase citizenship universally to everybody born inside the US.”
“The Fourteenth Modification has all the time excluded from birthright citizenship individuals who have been born in the US however not ‘topic to the jurisdiction thereof,'” the order continued.
The 14th Modification was ratified in 1868 to make sure citizenship for former slaves after the Civil Struggle, in accordance with the Library of Congress.
Leavitt’s feedback mirrored the interpretation of the 14th Modification that maintains the clause “topic to the jurisdiction thereof” precludes the youngsters of those that are born to folks who should not topic to the jurisdiction of the U.S.
On Jan. 23, U.S. District Decide John Coughenour, an 84-year-old Reagan appointee, granted a 14-day restraining order that blocked the manager motion he referred to as “blatantly unconstitutional.” The order was set to enter impact on Feb. 19.
On Monday, Coughenor referred to as for the lawsuit in opposition to the order filed by 4 states — Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon — to be consolidated with one other one that features three pregnant girls who should not U.S. residents.
Throughout an interview with CBS Information’ “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan over the weekend, Vance pushed again in opposition to the district decide’s opinion and the concept that anybody born on U.S. soil is de facto an American citizen.
“I clearly disagree with that decide,” Vice President JD Vance says of a federal decide, who this week blocked on constitutional grounds, President Trump’s order making an attempt to remove birthright citizenship.
“Simply because we have been based by immigrants, doesn’t suggest that 240… pic.twitter.com/rrO9QfsDSa
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 26, 2025
“Should you come right here on trip and you’ve got a child in an American hospital, that child doesn’t grow to be an American citizen,” he mentioned. “Should you’re an unlawful alien and also you come right here briefly, hopefully, your little one doesn’t grow to be an American citizen by advantage of simply having been born on American soil.”
“It is a very fundamental precept in American immigration legislation, that if you wish to grow to be an American citizen, and you’ve got carried out it the precise method, and the American folks of their collective knowledge have welcomed you into our nationwide neighborhood, then you definately grow to be a citizen,” Vance continued.
When Brennan instructed the U.S. is “a nation based by immigrants,” Vance mentioned the actual fact the nation was based by settlers and immigrants centuries in the past doesn’t justify having “the dumbest immigration coverage on this planet.”
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Put up. Ship information tricks to jon.brown@christianpost.com
