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The 14th Amendment was written primarily to address slavery's aftermath.

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The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 specifically to overturn Dred Scott v. Sandford and guarantee citizenship to formerly enslaved people. Trump's order resurrects the same exclusionary logic that...

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