Supreme Court struck down US President Donald Trump's order
Jun 30, 2026
08:42 pm
What's the storyThe US Supreme Court has upheld the principle of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump's executive order, which declared that children born to people who are in the US illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
The court's decision was based on the 14th Amendment, which was passed in the wake of the Civil War, and recent federal laws, which broadly confer citizenship on anyone born in the country with few exceptions.
