Supreme Court to Decide If U.S. Soil Is Now a Highly Exclusive Club

KEY POINTS

•The Supreme Court announced it will hear President Trump's challenge to his own executive order banning birthright citizenship.
•The government argues the 14th Amendment originally applied only to freed slaves and their children, excluding undocumented immigrants.
•Legal experts and the ACLU maintain the order contradicts 150 years of constitutional precedent, and courts have so far blocked it.

In a plot twist only Washington could dream up, the Supreme Court announced on a Friday that it will decide whether President Trump's executive order can rewrite the 14th Amendment - the constitutional dusty old tome that’s been handing out birthright citizenship like candy since 1868. The government's argument? The Citizenship Clause was really just a 19th-century social experiment intended strictly for freed slaves and their babies, not 'temporary visitors or illegal aliens.' Important departments like Homeland Security and Agriculture are currently perfecting their silent treatment. Meanwhile, legal eagles like ACLU's Cecilia Wang throw down constitutional gauntlets reminding everyone that 'no president can change the 14th Amendment’s fundamental promise,' which they've been enforcing for over 150 years, no executive order required. The Supreme Court will chew this over early next year, giving America another suspenseful wait to see if citizenship becomes a new episode of 'Who Gets In?'