US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, blocks Trump order
The 6-3 ruling says children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens at birth.
- The US Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump's executive order aiming to limit birthright citizenship, citing the 14th Amendment that guarantees citizenship to nearly all people born on US soil.
- The Court ruled 6-3 that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to all born in the United States regardless of their parents' citizenship or immigration status.
- Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that citizenship is a right to participate in the political community and the 14th Amendment's promise applies to every free-born person in the US.
- Trump's order was challenged and blocked in lower courts before the Supreme Court ruling.
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Experts divided on national security implications of birthright citizenship after Supreme Court ruling
After the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold the doctrine of birthright citizenship on Tuesday, experts are divided about the national security implications of the decision.The court rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order, which would have denied automatic citizenship for babies born in the United States whose parents are in the country illegally or on temporary visas.Gerard Filitti, senior counsel at the Lawfare Project, tol…
The US president suffered a major setback when one of his key measures was rejected: restricting citizenship rights to those born on American soil. Two other decisions, concerning transgender people and campaign finance, however, went in favor of conservatives. Source link: [...]
The divided Supreme Court's birthright citizenship decision exposes sharp rifts among justices
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment, even if their parents are in the country unlawfully or temporarily
Supreme Court blocking Trump birthright citizen attack a ‘real relief,’ but also ‘bare minimum’
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on June 30, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States to undocumented parents, preserving 150 years of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment and dealing a major blow to the administration’s xe…
The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Tuesday a decree by which President Donald Trump prohibited the automatic acquisition of U.S. citizenship in the case of children born in the U.S. territory of illegal immigrant parents or temporary residents. This decision, which is a major failure for Trump, was made by Supreme Court judges with a report by ...
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