The Emancipator

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In a potential blow to the fight to protect birthright citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday limited judges’ ability to delay President Donald Trump’s executive orders from going into effect.

The 6-3 decision, mere weeks after thousands took to the streets across the country for the “No Kings” protests, is the latest turn in the showdown over birthright citizenship for those born to immigrants who are undocumented. In a dissent from the more liberal-leaning minority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision would “cause chaos for the families of all affected children.”

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize fi****ms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship,” she wrote.

The high court’s decision did not delve into the merits of the Trump administration’s legally questionable quest to end birthright citizenship, which was established by the 14th Amendment in a reversal of the Dred Scott decision, a ruling that barred Black people from obtaining citizenship.

When Trump issued an executive order on day one of his second term barring citizenship for children born to parents with temporary or without legal immigration status, writer Jeff Yang immediately sounded the alarm in a sharp commentary that lays out both the importance of birthright citizenship and its vulnerabilities to a growing conservative movement to dismantle it.

What’s more, the rhetoric of reserving citizenship for only the deserving is an effective divide-and-conquer tactic that can divide communities of color at a time when coalition building is more important than ever.

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Thousands of people across the country are protesting ICE raids and thousands more are expected to hold demonstrations during Saturday’s “No Kings Day,” to oppose President Donald Trump’s draconian and harmful immigration policies. Trump’s deployment of military forces to suppress the protests is an authoritarian intimidation tactic aimed at silencing the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble. He is doubling down by threatening to use “very big force” against those who protest his military parade in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. The National Guard is also being deployed by Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas.

Here is what to know about ways to protest and the First Amendment right to have your voice heard.