Supreme Court deals major blow to President Trump on immigration issue
With a 6-3 vote, President Trump’s citizenship order was rejected. Learn how the justices made their decision and why the 14th Amendment was key.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said he plans to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider a recently decided birthright citizenship case after the Supreme Court ruled invalidating his efforts to overturn the long-held principle that all individuals born in the United States are citizens.
“If they don’t change their completely insane decision, this miscarriage of justice will destroy America,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, adding that he would request a retrial “immediately.”
According to Supreme Court rules, parties to a case have 25 days to file a reconsideration to challenge a judgment or judgment on the merits. But such rehearings are rarely granted, and President Trump’s request would be a long-term goal of obtaining a different outcome in a case the court recently decided.
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on June 30 blocked President Trump’s 2025 executive order that sought to prevent the children of immigrants who entered the country without authorization from automatically becoming U.S. citizens because they were born on U.S. soil.
Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking for the majority, said that children born to parents who are illegally or temporarily in the United States satisfy the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside.”
The decision was a major blow to President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, which center on large-scale illegal deportations of immigrants within the country.
President Trump immediately called on Congress to take legislative action to ban birthright citizenship. However, a majority of the justices ruled that birthright citizenship is constitutionally protected by the 14th Amendment, so banning the policy would require a constitutional amendment, which would require support from two-thirds of both chambers and three-quarters of state legislatures.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he supports legislative efforts to curtail birthright citizenship in the wake of the court ruling, but did not say what the bill would look like. “If there’s a bill that can fix that, we’ll push for it immediately,” Johnson said in a July 5 interview on Fox News.
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