{"id":6353,"date":"2025-06-08T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/9th-circuit-questions-trump-administration-on-birthright-citizenship-order\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:17:14","slug":"9th-circuit-questions-trump-administration-on-birthright-citizenship-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/9th-circuit-questions-trump-administration-on-birthright-citizenship-order\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Circuit Questions Trump Administration on Birthright Citizenship Order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, hearing arguments over President Donald Trump&#8217;s bid to redefine birthright citizenship, pressed a U.S. Department of Justice attorney Wednesday to explain how the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/constitution\/amendment-14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>14th Amendment<\/u><\/a> could be parsed to exclude U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants and certain visa-holding parents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>DOJ attorney Eric Dean McArthur argued that while the constitutional amendment provides U.S. citizenship to &#8220;all persons born or naturalized in the United States, subject to the jurisdiction thereof,&#8221; its crafters never intended the language to apply without exceptions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, hearing arguments over President Donald Trump&#8217;s bid to redefine birthright citizenship, pressed a U.S. Department of Justice attorney Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1676,2585,4397,610,4398,1574,2473,409],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-9th","tag-administration","tag-birthright","tag-circuit","tag-citizenship","tag-order","tag-questions","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}