The court ruled 6-3 that the Constitution guarantees automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S., invalidating Trump's executive order.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Constitution guarantees automatic birthright citizenship to virtually all children born in the United States, delivering a sharp rebuke to President Trump.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court's 6-3 opinion, which firmly rejected an executive order Trump issued on the first day of his second term. The order sought to bar citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to parents who either entered the country illegally or who are living and working here legally with temporary visas.
The executive order never went into effect. Every lower court judge who reviewed it concluded that it was "blatantly unconstitutional," according to one judge's assessment.
Trump has long maintained that the Constitution does not guarantee birthright citizenship. Chief Justice Roberts, however, noted in the opinion that the men who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment—the constitutional provision at the center of the case—intended to establish birthright citizenship as a constitutional guarantee.
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