Analysis: Conservative justices object to how lower courts are blocking Trump, but birthright citizenship case presents deeper issues | CNN Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Several of his moves to slash the federal workforce, restrict funding and overhaul immigration policy have been blocked by US district court judges wielding nationwide injunctions.
59% : Any decision diminishing the authority of lower court judges to check a president's agenda would necessarily be a boost to Trump.
51% : That case was brought by Wong Kim Ark, born in the US of Chinese nationals, and it stands for the proposition that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship for anyone born or naturalized here unless their parents fall under such narrow exceptions as foreign diplomats or soldiers of invading armies.
45% : The initiative against birthright citizenship arises from the administration's broader anti-immigrant effort and is crucial, Trump lawyers argued in filings, "for securing the border.
44% : That would allow Trump to enforce his initiative against children born to non-citizens in wide swaths of the country.

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