To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.CNN —President-elect Donald Trump has for years been railing against the concept of birthright citizenship in the 14th Amendment.
How might Trump challenge birthright citizenship?
The US has birthright citizenship to guarantee that the descendants of people brought to the US against their will and sold as slaves are citizens.
For more on the history of the amendment, read this excellent explainer from CNN’s AJ Willingham, written in 2018, when Trump threatened as president to challenge the concept of birthright citizenship.
Without commenting on any specific cases, he added a qualification to his legal support for birthright citizenship.
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