The New Yorker:

Ruth Marcus and Michael Luo

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump Administration to end birthright citizenship in some parts of the country. The majority decision focused on the issue of “nationwide injunctions,” rather than the merits of birthright citizenship, but Trump is still seizing on it: “Even the Birthright Citizenship Hoax has been, indirectly, hit hard. It had to do with the babies of slaves (same year!), not the SCAMMING of our Immigration process.” We talked to Michael Luo, who wrote recently on the question of who gets to be an American citizen, a debate as old as the United States.

Q: How bad is it?

Luo: I’ve been reading Justice Sotomayor’s dissent. Her sarcasm is hilarious to me but also sobering, underscoring the individual lives that will now be upended. “The Government now asks this Court to grant emergency relief insisting it will suffer irreparable harm unless it can deprive at least some children born in the United States of citizenship,” she writes.

She distills very succinctly what is at stake:

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