Trump Thinks He Can Defy the Supremes on Birthright Citizenship

The White House appears to think that it can ignore a Supreme Court ruling by lying about its previous defeat and trying to achieve the same goal another way. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that purported to narrow the scope of birthright citizenship, two months after suffering a major defeat on the subject at the high court. The order’s text claims that it targets “certain categories of children of aliens who do not fall within the rule of birthright citizenship…