reporters<\/a> on Tuesday after the decision that Congress will deal with the idea of birthright citizenship. In his opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested that Congress could hold statutory power under the Constitution to limit birthright citizenship, despite his ultimate decision to rule with the majority that the president\u2019s executive order was illegal.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cIf they want to try and overturn it by constitutional amendment, good luck to them, because they\u2019re going against the will of the people of this country of the United States,\u201d Wang said.\n <\/p>\n
\n In April, Wang argued that President Donald Trump\u2019s Executive Order should not hold, and she told the justices that if Congress did not want the Fourteenth Amendment to cover immigrants, that the law would have said so.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s birthright citizenship clause, as part of the Reconstruction Amendments of the Constitution, were hard won by African Americans who fought for freedom, who fought to end the notion of caste in this country,\u201d Wang said Tuesday.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo President Trump, in this executive order, and in so many of his other executive actions, was trying to talk about immigration, but what he was doing was profoundly well beyond immigration policy.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s Cecelia Wang called today\u2019s Supreme Court decision in the birthright citizenship case a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-735238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}