struck down Trump\u2019s order<\/a> by a 6-3 vote.<\/p>\nThe 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868 during Reconstruction states: \u201cAll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.\u201d The constitutional amendment nullified the 1857 Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, which had held that those descended from slaves couldn’t be citizens.<\/p>\n
DuVernay said her film will detail how the 14th Amendment became \u201ca permanent argument.\u201d It will feature politicians, historians and cultural voices.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf \u201813th\u2019 asked who gets caged, then \u201814th\u2019 asks who gets counted,\u201d DuVernay said in a statement. \u201cThis is not a film about the past tense of freedom. I\u2019m not interested in asking you to look back. The film asks what kind of country is being written beneath our feet now \u2026 while we\u2019re busy believing the stories we\u2019ve all been told.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court, upheld the protections of the amendment, which makes a citizen of anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions.<\/p>\n
\u201cCitizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights \u2014 to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to \u2018every free-born person in this land,\u2019\u201d wrote Roberts. \u201cWe keep that promise today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has vowed to continue to contest the Supreme Court’s ruling. Following the decision, he wrote on Truth Social: \u201cThis miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don\u2019t change their absolutely insane decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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