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   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.   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rulings-   
   birthright-citizenship-5-cases-final-day-rcna215246   
      
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