One of the most important Supreme Court rulings expected this year is whether to uphold the constitutional protection that babies born in the U.S. are citizens. Trump issued an  executive order  on his first day of this term seeking to end birthright citizenship. Lower courts have ruled that his order was unconstitutional and now the Supreme Court will rule by July 4. Days before the April 1 oral arguments, Trump railed against birthright citizenship with talking points that the longstanding practice of granting automatic citizenship to U.S.-born babies is abused by wealthy foreigners, was meant for the children of enslaved people, and that the U.S. is an outlier. Time for a fact-check. Some foreigners do give birth in the U.S. because they want their babies to obtain U.S. citizenship, but this amounts to a small portion of births annually, and there are policies in place to prevent that. The 14th Amendment passed after the end of slavery, a key legal provision that confers birthright citizenship.…