ST. PAUL, Minn. — The national stature of Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellision, grew a notch with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold “birthright citizenship.” Ellison led a 24-state coalition against a racist Trump plan designed to deport millions of citizens born to foreign nationals on U.S. soil. This week the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Trump and his racist aide, Stephen Miller, had conspired unconstitutionally to end protections for these birthright citizens. There are about 225,000 such babies born annually in the country. Trump and Miller had railed mostly against citizens of Somali and Haitian lineage, almost all of black skin, but also would have targeted people whose parents were from other “shithole countries.” Their goal: To apply a racial “purity” test for citizenship.
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