Washington, DC – The United States Supreme Court has ruled against US President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship for all individuals born on US soil.The 6-3 ruling represents a major blow to Trump and his effort to transform immigration in the US. Upon taking office on January 20, 2025, Trump had signed an executive order seeking to bar those born in the US to parents on temporary legal statuses or without documentation from automatically receiving US citizenship.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe nine-panel Supreme Court’s ruling upholds a lower court’s determination that Trump’s order ran counter to the US constitution, as well as a subsequent Supreme Court decision on the matter.Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts traced the US practice of birthright citizenship to English common law, through the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868 and the Supreme Court’s 1898 ruling in the United States v Wong Kim Ark.In his 26-page opinion, he said Trump administration lawyers and dissenting Supreme Court justices had offered insufficient evidence in its reinterpretation of longstanding law.“The trouble is that there is scant evidence for this dramatically revisionist view,” he wrote.“The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,” he wrote. “We keep that promise today.”Roberts was joined by fello …
