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douglas9

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Mon Mar 2, 2026, 05:48 AM Yesterday

Catholic Bishops File Supreme Court Brief Calling Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order "Immoral"

WASHINGTON — The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court this week in Trump v. Barbara et al., No. 25-365, urging the justices to strike down President Donald Trump’s Executive Order stripping birthright citizenship from children born in the United States to undocumented or temporarily-present mothers whose fathers are not citizens or permanent residents.

The brief, filed on behalf of the USCCB and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. — which collectively serve nearly 500,000 immigrants annually through more than 415 legal programs across 49 states — pulls no punches. It calls the executive order flatly “immoral” and warns that if left standing, it could render millions of American-born children stateless by 2045.

“Depriving an innocent child of his citizenship based upon his parents’ immigration status would be an especially outrageous punishment,” the brief states, citing Trop v. Dulles (1958), in which the Supreme Court itself rejected statelessness as too cruel a punishment even for convicted criminals.


https://migrantinsider.com/p/catholic-bishops-file-supreme-court

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Chasstev365

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2. How many Supreme Court Justices are Roman Catholics?
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 07:24 AM
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Whatever they rule, I'm sure they will read it and ignore the Bishops because they're stating a "woke" view of Christianity.

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