Trump May Scorn Supreme Court Ruling, but He's Radically Transformed U.S. Immigration System
The ruling blocks a signature immigration policy and says about 250,000 babies a year would have been denied citizenship under the order.
- On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's January 20, 2025, executive order, ruling that the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause guarantees birthright citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil.
- The Trump administration argued children of undocumented parents are not constitutionally "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States; Chief Justice John Roberts and the majority rejected this premise.
- Dissenting Justices Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, and Neil Gorsuch would have upheld the order, with Thomas arguing the Citizenship Clause was never intended to create automatic citizenship for children of those violating immigration laws.
- President Trump called the decision "too bad for our country," while Vice President JD Vance characterized it as an "absurdity," and Senator Ted Cruz condemned it as a "travesty."
- This ruling marks a rare legal setback for the administration, which has otherwise won 25 of 31 Trump-related Supreme Court cases; recent decisions allowed the government to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian migrants.
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Building A Movement Around Birthright Citizenship, One Grievance At A Time
Three Supreme Court justices have concluded that birthright citizenship isn't a right granted by the 14th Amendment. A fourth justice is on the fence. It's clear now that the Court could take birthright citizenship away in the not-too-distant future. The pseudonymous Bluesky poster who uses the name Richard M. Nixon is right: Barring changes to the Court you will see another go at birthright citizenship within 10 years. — Richard M. Nixon (@dic…
A Supreme Mistake on Birthright Citizenship
Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment to the Supreme Court was championed by conservatives who wanted to end the injustice of Roe v. Wade. It’s a sad irony that she’s now joined a decision that will have similarly far-reaching ill-effects on American politics and jurisprudence alike. Trump v. Barbara, the “birthright citizenship” case decided this week, is a travesty of Roe’s magnitude. The decision’s defenders point to its long pedigree, with precede…
The six opinions in the birthright citizenship ruling have a lot to teach us about the U.S. today
The U.S. Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling — authored by Chief Justice John Roberts — was an undeniably good result. It is a solid opinion affirming the unanimous view of every other court at every level of the federal legal system to consider the question: President Donald Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship violates the Fourteenth Amendment.As Roberts concluded in Trump v. Barbara:It was a…
Ted Cruz slammed for blatant flip-flop following Supreme Court bombshell
After the U.S. Supreme Court issued, at the end of June, a bombshell ruling upholding birthright citizenship, far-right Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was quick to condemn the decision as a "travesty." But according to Notre Dame law professor Derek T. Muller, that condemnation is a major flip-flop from what Cruz said about birthright citizenship back in 2011.U.S. President Donald Trump, after returning to the White House, issued an executive order dec…
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