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As Americans, we will continue to organize, vote, legislate, and litigate because our country depends on it.

Yet, while we celebrate this ruling today, we cannot rest. Because this is certainly not the end of Trump’s attacks on our Constitution, our democracy, and the notion of what it means to be American.

This is personal. I am a proud son of immigrants. I was born in the United States. I am a proud citizen of the United States with freedom to pursue the American Dream.

The Constitution could not be clearer: if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen of the United States. Period. No ambiguity.

The public confidence in the Supreme Court is not nearly what it should be. Even on a case as clear as this birthright citizenship, the Constitution couldn’t be clearer.

We’ll have to continue to resist, have to continue to fight back and defend our values, defend our rights, and build on them for future generations.

Accordingly, we insist that the Postal Service abandon this proposed regulation and return to its core mission of providing universal postal services to every American. The Constitution and federal law demand nothing less.

Our country has long held that children born on U.S. soil or U.S. territories are citizens. Today they no longer have to worry about an administration who tried to deny them this right.

I’m glad to see that strategy has been halted here.

Now, President Trump can remove the heads of those agencies if they make a decision he dislikes even when it is best for our nation.

While today's ruling is an important victory, we must remain vigilant in defending the Constitution and protecting immigrant families from continued attacks on their rights and their dignity.

Every child born in the United States deserves the full rights and protections of citizenship, regardless of their parents' immigration status.

This decision brings relief to countless families who have spent months fearing that one of our nation's most fundamental constitutional protections could be stripped away.

I welcome today's Supreme Court decision reaffirming birthright citizenship, a victory for the Constitution and for families across America.

The court should at its earliest opportunity rectify this judgement and reinstate the critical independence of these agencies.

I can assure you that our Constitution is alive and well, and that this committee and Congress will hopefully hold you accountable and the government accountable, the Executive Department accountable, using the oversight tools it places in…

Director Vought has certainly said he believes America is in a ‘post-constitutional moment.’ I'm not sure what that means.

Mr. Chairman, this oversight hearing may be the most important one held this year in the House.