Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship in Major Blow to Trump
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, finding that the order violates the 14th Amendment.
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Trump’s order declared that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
Writing on behalf of the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts says children born to parents who are in the United States unlawfully or temporarily are “born in the United States” and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
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“Under the Constitution, they are citizens at birth,” he wrote.
“Citizenship, then and now was the right to have rights–to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today,” Roberts added.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented. Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in the judgement, but dissented in part, saying Trump’s executive order does not violate the 14th Amendment, but does violate the federal statute that codified the amendment.
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