The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Trump's executive order restricting the right to citizenship by birth

The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to restrict the automatic granting of citizenship to children born on U.S. soil. This is according to a document published on the court's website.

The decision was passed by a vote of six to three. The court ruled that Trump’s executive order, signed on January 20, 2025 (the day of his inauguration), was unlawful. The executive order stated that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right to citizenship by birth on U.S. soil, should not apply to children whose parents are not themselves U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. For example, under this provision, children of parents who were in the U.S. illegally or on a tourist or student visa would have been denied citizenship.

“Citizenship, then and now, has been the right to enjoy the rights necessary to participate freely in our political community. The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every person born free on this soil.’ “We uphold that promise today,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the “Opinion of the Court” section.

Three of the Supreme Court justices were appointed by Trump. Among them, the conservative justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh supported the majority decision, as did the three liberal justices; the remaining conservative justices dissented, according to the Financial Times.

In February, the Supreme Court similarly struck down most of the import tariffs that Trump had imposed after returning to the White House in 2025. By a vote of six to three, the court ruled that Trump had exceeded his authority.

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