Supreme Court is set to issue rulings on birthright citizenship and five other cases on term's final day

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to conclude its nine-month term 
Friday with a flurry of rulings, including a closely watched case 
concerning President Donald Trump's attempt to end automatic birthright 
citizenship.

The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has six cases left to 
decide of those in which it heard oral arguments in the current term, 
which began in October.

Other cases are on such issues as voting rights, religious rights and 
health care.

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The one that has attracted the most attention is the birthright 
citizenship dispute, which focuses not on the lawfulness of the proposal 
itself but whether federal judges had the power to block it nationwide 
while litigation continues.

What the court says about so-called nationwide injunctions could have 
wide-ranging impacts, with judges frequently ruling against Trump on his 
broad use of executive power. The court also has the option of side-
stepping a decision on that issue and instead taking up the merits of the 
plan.

Birthright citizenship is conferred under the Constitution’s 14th 
Amendment, which states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United 
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the 
United States.”

The longstanding interpretation of the provision as understood by 
generations of Americans, including legal scholars on the left and right, 
is that anyone born on U.S. soil is an American citizen with a few minor 
exceptions, including people who are the children of diplomats.

Along with birthright citizenship, the other five cases the court has to 
decide concern:

Whether conservative religious parents can opt their elementary school-age 
children out of LGBTQ-themed books in class.

Long-running litigation over whether congressional districts in Louisiana 
are lawful.

A law enacted in Texas that imposes age-restrictions for using adult 
websites.

A challenge to the Affordable Care Act's preventive care task force.
A Federal Communications Commission program that subsidizes phone and 
internet services in underserved areas.

The justices typically break for the summer and return for a new term in 
October, although they will still likely have to continue acting on cases 
that reach them on an emergency basis. Such cases have been reaching the 
court with increasing frequency since Trump took office.

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