WASHINGTON, June 30 (ANI) — The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship and reaffirmed that children born in the United States are entitled to automatic citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, according to reports.
The ruling confirms that children born in the U.S. to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country are covered under the Citizenship Clause of the Constitution.
The Court also cited its earlier decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which established that children born on U.S. soil to foreign parents are eligible for birthright citizenship.
The decision represents a significant setback for Trump, who had previously criticized the legal basis of birthright citizenship and argued for restrictions aimed at curbing “birth tourism.”
In May, Trump wrote that a “negative ruling on Birthright Citizenship, on top of the recent Supreme Court Tariff catastrophe, is not Economically sustainable for the United States of America,” according to The New York Times.
The report noted that three conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch, and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — dissented. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh joined the majority in striking down the executive order but said his reasoning was based on federal law rather than the Constitution.
Civil rights organizations welcomed the ruling. Deborah Fleischaker, a former Homeland Security official now with UnidosUS, called it “a huge relief,” according to CNN.
Trump’s legal team had argued that the Fourteenth Amendment requires individuals to be domiciled in the United States, or intend to remain, to qualify for citizenship.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, said, “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”
The ruling marks a major legal setback for Trump, who made restricting birthright citizenship a central issue in his political platform and broader immigration agenda.
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