Scalia Invoked Against Trump's Citizenship Stance At 9th Circ.

By Rachel Riley ( June 4, 2025, 8:58 PM EDT) -- A panel of Ninth Circuit judges scrutinized the Trump administration's take on the citizenship clause as the government argued Wednesday to preserve the president's push to curb birthright citizenship, with one judge suggesting the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would've rejected the attempt to read "beyond the mere words" of the 14th Amendment....

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