Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Efforts to End Birthright Citizenship: Live Updates - The New York Times

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Reject Trump’s Effort to End Birthright Citizenship

"President Trump tried to ban birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary foreign visitors

Members of League of United Latin American Citizens gathered on Tuesday outside the Supreme Court after the justices released their decision on birthright citizenship.Credit...Allison Robbert for The New York Times

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June 30, 2026, 1:59 p.m. ET30 minutes ago

Abbie VanSickle

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The Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, and the justices reaffirmed the long-held principle that nearly all children who are born on U.S. soil are American citizens.

Mr. Trump’s executive order had aimed to prevent babies born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign residents from automatically becoming Americans. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, explained that Mr. Trump’s executive order violated the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. “The framers of the 14th Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’”

He added: “We keep that promise today.”

The 6-3 decision capped a more than decade-long effort by Mr. Trump to use the issue as a political tool. In a social media post, the president called the Supreme Court’s decision “too bad for our Country.” He urged Congress to take up the issue with legislation and wrongly asserted that “no long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary.”

With their decision, five justices — a majority — found that birthright citizenship was guaranteed in the Constitution.

Here’s what else to know:

• Read the decision: In a sign of the importance of the birthright decision, the court’s decision and dissents tallied nearly 200 pages.

• The majority: The chief justice was joined in upholding birthright citizenship by the court’s three liberal justices, along with two fellow conservatives, Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett M. Kavanaugh. (Justice Kavanaugh wrote that he would strike down the executive order based on federal law, not the Constitution.)

• Dissents: Three of the court’s conservatives — Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — dissented in the case."

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