\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby Selena Hill <\/p>\n
July 1, 2026<\/p>\n
The SCOTUS decision rejects Trump’s effort to end automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S., reaffirming the 14th Amendment in a landmark constitutional ruling.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major blow on June 30, ruling against his executive order that attempted to end birthright citizenship \u2014 a right constitutionally protected under the 14th Amendment for the last 150 years.<\/p>\n
The 6-3 ruling marks a major victory for immigrant rights by protecting all children born on American soil to undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders. The decision reaffirmed that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees U.S. citizenship to nearly everyone born in the United States, regardless of their parents\u2019 immigration status, reports Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n The constitutional protection dates back to the Reconstruction era<\/a>, when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship to formerly enslaved Black Americans. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts concluded that a president cannot unilaterally rewrite the Constitution through executive action. He went on to describe citizenship as \u201cthe right to have rights,\u201d adding that \u201cthe Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to \u2018every free-born person in this land.\u2019 We keep that promise today.\u201d<\/p>\n Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas sided with President Trump, arguing in the principal dissent that birthright citizenship should not automatically extend to children whose parents lack permanent allegiance to the United States. He maintained that the Amendment was intended primarily to restore citizenship rights to formerly enslaved Americans rather than establish a universal guarantee based solely on birthplace.<\/p>\n Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first and only Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, sharply criticized Thomas\u2019 dissent. In a scathing opinion, she argued that his interpretation of the 14th Amendment ignored the Reconstruction Amendments\u2019 broader purpose of dismantling systems of racial subordination. She contended that Thomas\u2019 reading failed to recognize that the Amendment was designed not only to grant citizenship to formerly enslaved people but also to establish a broader constitutional principle of equal citizenship.<\/p>\n \u201cDespite his longstanding endorsement of a \u2018colorblind\u2019 Constitution, Justice Thomas now surprisingly suggests that the Citizenship Clause was a race-conscious remedial measure, relating only to \u2018freed slaves such as Dred Scott,\u2019 and those who shared with them certain characteristics,\u201d wrote Jackson, according to Yahoo News<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is for this reason, he says, that \u2018children who were born in the United States but [to parents] not domiciled here\u2019 are not entitled to claim birthright citizenship,\u201d she continued. \u201cBut that narrow vision of the Fourteenth Amendment bears little relationship to the history of its ratification. Even worse, Justice Thomas\u2019s telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n The ruling drew praise from Black civil rights leaders and elected officials like Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who applauded the decision while slamming Trump for attempting to overturn the Constitution.<\/p>\n \u201cThe President took an oath to uphold the Constitution \u2014 not rewrite it whenever it doesn\u2019t serve him,\u201d she wrote on X. \u201cNewsflash, Donald: We live in a democracy, not a dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n The Supreme Court just reaffirmed what the Constitution has always said: birthright citizenship is a constitutional right.<\/p>\n The President took an oath to uphold the Constitution \u2014 not rewrite it whenever it doesn’t serve him.<\/p>\n Newsflash, Donald: We live in a democracy, not a\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@RepJasmine) June 30, 2026<\/a> Today\u2019s decision affirms a constitutional principle that has defined our nation for generations: that those born on American soil are citizens of the United States. By rejecting this attempt to narrow the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court has upheld a\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Martin Luther King III (@OfficialMLK3) June 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Likewise, Rev. Al Sharpton pointed to the historical significance of the decision for Black Americans, writing that the Citizenship Clause was adopted in direct response to the Supreme Court\u2019s infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford<\/em> ruling, which declared that Black people could not be U.S. citizens. The 14th Amendment overturned that decision by establishing birthright citizenship as a constitutional guarantee.<\/p>\n \u201cBirthright citizenship was shaped by this country\u2019s painful history of slavery, Dred Scott, and the long struggle to ensure that Black people born in America could not be denied citizenship or equal\u00a0protection. That history matters. If you are born on this soil and subject to its laws, your citizenship cannot be taken away by executive order or political\u00a0pressure,\u201d said Sharpton, the founder and President of the National\u00a0Action Network (NAN), in a statement to Black Enterprise.<\/p>\n Trump, on the other hand, criticized the ruling and indicated that his administration would push Congress to restrict birthright citizenship through legislation \u2014 an action that legal scholars say is nearly impossible considering that it would require either a new constitutional interpretation or a constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n RELATED CONTENT: Trump Calls Country That Voted Him In \u2018Stupid\u2019 After Birthright Citizenship Arguments in Supreme Court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Selena Hill July 1, 2026 The SCOTUS decision rejects Trump’s effort to end automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S., reaffirming the 14th Amendment in a landmark constitutional ruling. 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Responses from Civil Rights Leaders<\/h2>\n
\n\u201cThis is not simply a legal victory, but a rejection of a dangerous effort to redraw the boundaries of citizenship and belonging in America,\u201d wrote Martin Luther King III on X.<\/p>\nPolitical and Legislative Aftermath<\/h2>\n