The US Supreme Court has ruled against the order issued by President Donald Trump seeking to limit birthright citizenship. This court ruling is being viewed as a major defeat for President Trump.
In a 6-3 decision delivered on Tuesday, Supreme Court justices upheld a lower court’s ruling that had previously stayed Trump’s executive order.
Trump’s order had directed US agencies to withhold recognition of citizenship for children born in the United States if neither of their parents was a US citizen or a legal permanent resident.
Trump has repeatedly tested the limits of presidential authority regarding domestic and foreign policy. He issued this executive order last year—on the first day of his second term—as part of a broader effort to implement strict measures against both legal and illegal immigration.
With this decision, the court has struck down a major move by Trump for the second time this year. Previously, in February, the court had overturned the sweeping global tariffs he had imposed.
A BBC report states that Chief Justice John Roberts authored the opinion. He affirmed that children born in the United States to parents residing there illegally or temporarily are also “citizens by birth” under the US Constitution.
In the ruling, the Chief Justice cited the 14th Amendment, which was passed following the Civil War to resolve the citizenship status of formerly enslaved people who had been freed and were born in the United States.
John Roberts wrote, “Citizenship was then, and is now, the right to participate freely in our political community. The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every person born free on this soil.’ We uphold that promise today.”
However, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on transgender women participating in sports at girls’ schools and colleges. President Donald Trump hailed this ruling as a “big win.” In its ruling, the Supreme Court stated that states may impose bans on the participation of transgender women in sports competitions at girls’ schools and colleges.
The Court reached this decision after hearing cases filed by students from two separate states who were challenging bans imposed on their participation in competitions.
The states of Idaho and West Virginia had enacted laws requiring members of sports teams at public schools and colleges to compete based on the gender assigned to them at birth.
