To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedAnthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent14 minutes agoBy President Donald Trump’s standards, his response to the Supreme Court ruling against him on birthright citizenship was rather tepid.He said Tuesday’s decision was “too bad for our country”, before going on to endorse legislation that would reinstate his proposed limits on the longstanding legal principle that anyone born in the country is a US citizen.The chances that Congress will act on that are slim, however. Democrats would almost certainly block any effort in the US Senate, and even if such a law were enacted it is unclear how it would pass constitutional muster.And while this decision was a blow to Trump, it brings to an end a Supreme Court term that has mostly continued a trend of recent years. Its conservative majority, cemented during his first term, has delivered a series of major victories for the president. It has methodically expanded executive power and shielded Trump, and all future presidents, from prosecution for official actions.A handful of conservatives, however, joined ranks with the court’s three liberal justices to place clear limits on some of Trump’s most ambitious immigration, trade and law enforcement polices – issues that have been central to his political identity for more than a decade.US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump4 hours agoUS Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes in female school and college sports1 hour agoOn Tuesday, the court rejected the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for the children of temporary visitors and undocumented migrants. It was closely decided, however, with only five of the court’s nine justices finding a constitutional guarantee for such a right.Back in February, by a slightly more solid six-to-three margin – including Trump appointees Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch – the court also struck down the president’s attempts to use existing federal law to enact sweeping new tariffs on America’s trading partners.Trump responded to that decision with far more anger than he did on Tuesday, holding a hastily arranged press conference to state that he was “absolutely ashamed” of three “lapdog” conservative justices who joined the court’s liberals.In December, a different grouping of conservatives – Chief Justice John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh (another Trump appointee) and Barrett – again sided with the liberals to block the president from deploying National Guard soldiers to Chicago to enforce immigration law and control crime.To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedIn each of these cases, Trump and his team had pushed the boundaries of presidential authority, often incorporating novel or seldom-used legal theories to back up their actions.Trump’s birthright citizenship revocation cut against more than 125 years of Supreme Court precedent interpreting what most legal scholars thought was clear language in the US constitution.His tariffs, which were imposed and retracted by presidential decree, collided with recent Supreme Court rulings that major new policies had to be explicitly approved by Congress.Trump’s attempts to deploy the National Guard were a rare instance of a president trying to do so over the objections of local and state officials. It was nipped in the bu …
