Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid To End Birthright Citizenship
The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s attempt to upend more than a century of legal consensus that virtually everyone born on American soil is a U.S. citizen.
The court’s ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, invalidates an executive order Trump issued on the first day of his second term seeking to deny citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants and of people studying, working or visiting the U.S. on time-limited visas.
The ruling Tuesday is the second major blow the conservative-leaning high court has dealt this year against a pillar of Trump’s policy agenda. In February, the justices knocked out the centerpiece of his trade policy by overturning sweeping tariffs Trump imposed on imports from around the globe.
Five justices — Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the three liberals — agreed that the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship. Justice Brett Kavanaugh disagreed with that conclusion, but said Trump’s executive order is invalid because it violates a federal statute.
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