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Trump’s birthright citizenship fight lands in a courtroom that hates being rushed
The administration’s push to end birthright citizenship kept moving through the courts, with the Supreme Court hearing arguments on the order after every lower court to consider it had blocked it. Trump even showed up in person, an unusual move that only underlined how central the fight had become to his immigration project. The immediate problem for the White House is that this is not a clean policy dispute; it is a constitutional brawl with a long paper trail of judicial resistance. If the court narrows the order or rejects the theory, the administration will have spent enormous political capital on a signature move that keeps getting slapped down.