Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleThree conservative justices would have allowed the restrictions to take effect (Getty Images)The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in the United States Tuesday, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the U.S. illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.In the court’s divided 6-3 opinion, Chief Justice Roberts wrote there is “scant evidence” for the Trump administration’s “dramatically revisionist view” of the 14th Amendment and limits on citizenship at birth. “In any case, postenactment history cannot override the text,” Roberts wrote. “If Congress intended to limit American citizenship to the children of those domiciled in the United States, nothing in the succinct language of the Citizenship Clause conveyed that design.”The words used throughout Trump’s order — “mother,” “father,” “lawful,” “temporary” — are absent from the 14th Amendment, Roberts notes.“For a simple reason: they did not matter,” he wrote.In fullSupreme Court rulings live: SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship saying Trump admin’s argument against it has ‘scant evidence’Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Trump’s birthright order did not align with 14th Amendment, Chief Justice says
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleThree conservative justices would have allowed the restrictions to take effect (Getty Images)The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in the United States Tuesday, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the U.S. illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.In the court’s divided 6-3 opinion, Chief Justice Roberts wrote there is “scant evidence” for the Trump administration’s “dramatically revisionist view” of the 14th Amendment and limits on citizenship at birth. “In any case, postenactment history cannot override the text,” Roberts wrote. “If Congress intended to limit American citizenship to the children of those domiciled in the United States, nothing in the succinct language of the Citizenship Clause conveyed that design.”The words used throughout Trump’s order — “mother,” “father,” “lawful,” “temporary” — are absent from the 14th Amendment, Roberts notes.“For a simple reason: they did not matter,” he wrote.In fullSupreme Court rulings live: SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship saying Trump admin’s argument against it has ‘scant evidence’Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
