Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court Splits Conservative Scholars

President Trump issued an order to limit birthright citizenship, a move that has divided conservative legal scholars who previously held near-unanimous views on the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to U.S.-born children. The 14th Amendment has long been interpreted as automatically granting citizenship to nearly all babies born on U.S. soil, regardless of their parents' immigration status. Trump's order challenges this interpretation and has fractured what was once a settled consensus among conservative constitutional experts on the scope of birthright citizenship. The split among conservative scholars suggests the legal and political landscape around citizenship and immigration law is shifting, with the Supreme Court likely to face the question of whether Trump's order withstands constitutional scrutiny. The dispute reflects broader disagreement over how to interpret the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause in an era of heightened immigration enforcement.