Thursday's ruling was the first legal test of Trump's executive order reinterpreting the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship, which Trump long promised on the campaign trail.
However, Trump’s executive order attempts to argue that the 14th Amendment does not apply to everyone born in the U.S. It states: “ . . . The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to ...
Brad Jones, a professor of political science at the University of California Davis, told Newsweek. Birthright citizenship has been interpreted, repeatedly, as an integral part of the 14th Amendment.