{"id":70607,"date":"2026-04-01T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/does-trump-get-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-be-a-us-citizen-supreme-court-considers-question\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:56:13","slug":"does-trump-get-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-be-a-us-citizen-supreme-court-considers-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/does-trump-get-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-be-a-us-citizen-supreme-court-considers-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Trump get to redefine what it means to be a US citizen? Supreme court considers question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most justices seemed skeptical of the administration\u2019s argument, despite Trump\u2019s unprecedented appearance<\/p>\n<p>It was a surreal morning at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">US supreme court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more than two hours, the nation\u2019s highest court considered arguments over whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u2013 via an executive order \u2013 could tear down an idea that has been fundamental to the story and trajectory of the United States: that almost anyone born on US soil is an US citizen.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/01\/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-arguments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most justices seemed skeptical of the administration\u2019s argument, despite Trump\u2019s unprecedented appearance It was a surreal morning at the US supreme court. For more than two hours, the nation\u2019s highest court considered arguments over whether Donald Trump \u2013 via an executive order \u2013 could tear down an idea that has been fundamental to the story &#8230; <a title=\"Does Trump get to redefine what it means to be a US citizen? Supreme court considers question\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/does-trump-get-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-be-a-us-citizen-supreme-court-considers-question\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Does Trump get to redefine what it means to be a US citizen? Supreme court considers question\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}