Donald Trump is trying to end birthright citizenship

This week, Donald Trump took the extraordinary step of attending a Supreme Court hearing as his administration tried to defend an executive order to end birthright citizenship — a position that is wildly at odds with the Constitution and more than a century of settled law.

The 14th Amendment is clear: if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen. That principle has been the law of the land for over 125 years. Yet Trump is trying to rewrite it with the stroke of a pen — something no president has the power to do.

This executive order — like Trump's attacks on asylum and his efforts to turn ICE into a force that operates without transparency — swims in a current of racism and bigotry. It's about who gets to belong in America, and who doesn't.

I believe the Supreme Court should — and likely will — reject this unconstitutional attempt to strip away a fundamental right, but we cannot afford to be complacent.

Because we know Trump's playbook.

When he loses, he doesn't back down. He digs in and doubles down. He looks for new ways to push the same harmful policies, often even more aggressively than before.

We have to stay engaged, we have to raise our voices, and we have to defend the basic principles that define our country — that the Constitution matters, that rights cannot be erased by executive order, and that no one is above the law.

Let's save our republic!

Jeff