US Supreme Court Voids Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship
The Supreme Court of the United States has invalidated an executive order issued by Donald Trump that sought to end automatic citizenship for children born in the United States.
In a 6–3 ruling delivered on Tuesday, the court held that the order was inconsistent with the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and subject to the country's jurisdiction.
Delivering the majority opinion in the case Trump v. Barbara, John Roberts stated that the executive order could not be reconciled with the Constitution. The ruling aligned with previous decisions by lower courts that had also found the order unconstitutional.
Roberts noted that children born in the United States to parents who are either in the country unlawfully or temporarily still meet the constitutional requirements for citizenship under the Citizenship Clause.
The decision reaffirms the long-standing constitutional interpretation that birth within the United States generally grants automatic citizenship, regardless of a child's parents' immigration status.
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