Sen. Schmitt offers glimmer of hope after birthright citizenship ‘mistake’ from SCOTUS

The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment states, “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.”

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day back in office making it U.S. policy not to issue citizenship documents to a person whose mother was unlawfully in the country and whose father was neither an American citizen nor a permanent resident at the time of the person’s birth.

‘The Court has made a mistake that will seriously affect the country’s future.’

This order has been at the center of a legal battle that culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s determination on Tuesday in Trump v. Barbara that “children