{"id":1519247,"date":"2026-06-30T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519247"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:41:03","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-birthright-citizenship-rejecting-trumps-proposed-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519247","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump\u2019s proposed limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court<\/a> on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship<\/a>, rejecting President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.<\/p>\n

The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment<\/a>, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling that anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions, is a citizen.<\/p>\n

The Republican president’s restrictions had been blocked by several lower courts and had not taken effect anywhere in the U.S.<\/p>\n

During arguments in April, both conservative and liberal justices questioned the order\u2019s legality in a momentous case that was magnified by Trump\u2019s unprecedented attendance in the courtroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The case framed another test of Trump\u2019s assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court with a conservative majority and a robust view of presidential power that has largely ruled in his favor. In the notable exceptions when the court has not, Trump has responded with starkly personal criticisms of the justices.<\/p>\n

The justices ruled on Trump\u2019s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The birthright citizenship order<\/a>, which Trump signed on the first day of his second term, is part of his administration\u2019s broad immigration crackdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Birthright citizenship was the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling. The justices previously struck down global tariffs<\/a> Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.<\/p>\n

Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices<\/a> who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.<\/p>\n

He also seemed to recognize the court was likely to rule against him on birthright citizenship, too, using his Truth Social platform to criticize \u201cdumb judges and justices\u201d and wealthy pregnant women from China and elsewhere who come to the U.S. to give birth so their newborns will have American citizenship.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s order would have upended widely held views that the 14th Amendment<\/a> confers citizenship on everyone born in the U.S., excluding only the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.<\/p>\n

The amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship, though the Citizenship Clause is written more broadly. \u201cAll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n

In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down Trump’s executive order as illegal. The decisions have invoked the high court\u2019s 1898 ruling in Wong Kim Ark<\/a>, which held that the U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration argued that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not \u201csubject to the jurisdiction\u201d of the United States and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.<\/p>\n

More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would have been affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University\u2019s Population Research Institute.<\/p>\n

While Trump has largely focused on illegal immigration in his rhetoric and actions, the birthright citizenship restrictions also would have applied to people who are legally in the United States, including students and applicants for green cards, or permanent resident status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil … Continue reading Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump\u2019s proposed limits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 12:00:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519249,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519247\/revisions\/1519249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}