US Supreme Court to rule on birthright citizenship and trans athletes

US Supreme Court to rule on birthright citizenship and trans athletesImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Supporters of banning trans athletes from women's and girls' sports hold signs outside the US Supreme Court this weekByGrace Eliza GoodwinPublished1 minute agoThe US Supreme Court will release two of its most anticipated rulings of Donald Trump's presidency on Tuesday. Perhaps the most closely watched decision will be on Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship, the rule that grants those born on US soil automatic citizenship.The ruling could uphold or upend 150 years of precedent enshrined in the US Constitution. For its final day in this session, the high court is also due to rule on transgender athletes in women's and girls' sports. Birthright citizenshipThe principle of birthright citizenship - also known by the legal term "jus soli" or "right of the soil" - stems from the first sentence of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution."All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside," that sentence reads.Added to the charter in 1868, the law was originally intended to grant citizenship to American-born, formerly enslaved people in the wake of the American Civil War. In one of his first moves in office, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to limit birthright citizenship by denying it to children whose parents were in the country illegally or were in the country on temporary visas.The move was a core part of Trump's immigration agenda, which has included crackdowns on illegal border crossings and the revocation of Temporary Protected Status for many migrants. The Supreme Court recently allowed the administration to withdraw protected status from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and its par...