President Donald Trump called on Congress to enact legislation that would end birthright citizenship, continuing the fight against the enshrined right after the Supreme Court ruled against him Tuesday. “The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process. No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. In one of the most anticipated rulings of the term, the justices struck down the president’s executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants or people in the U.S. temporarily.Trump’s pushback comes ahead of the July 4 weekend, when he is expected to headline a fireworks show in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary with a speech in the nation’s capital. Over the last few months, critics have accused Trump of taking over the semiquincentennial events to celebrate himself or his administration’s policies. Sandy Hook shooting survivor warns loosening gun laws will lead to more gun deathsA survivor of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting cautioned the Supreme Court that loosening state bans on assault-style rifles could lead to more gun deaths.“Far too many school shootings, including the tragedy that took place at Sandy Hook, are made more deadly by the easy availability of assault weapons,” Abbey Clements said Tuesday.Clements’ comment comes after the Supreme Court said it would take up two cases challenging state laws that ban assault-style semiautomatic weapons. “The simple fact is that we had fewer mass shootings and mass shootings were less deadly when we had a federal assault weapons ban in place. With the Supreme Court opening the door to striking down more state bans, we know what the result will be – more mass shootings and more gun deaths.”Ariana Baio30 June 2026 22:00Ruling on transgender athletes applies to states with laws banning participationThe Supreme Court’s ruling on transgender women and girls participating in sports is limited to states that currently have laws restricting them from playing on women’s and girls’ teams. The court’s ruling Tuesday does not prohibit transgender women and girls from participating on sports teams, rather, it gives states the OK to enact bans.Approximately 29 states have such laws. Ariana Baio30 June 2026 21:53From the Supreme Court on Monday: Mail-in ballot votingMonday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of states that enacted laws to allow for late mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day – so long as they are postmarked by Election Day.The ruling was a loss for Trump, who has railed against mail-in ballot voting. Ariana Baio30 June 2026 21:30‘Our relief feels temporary’ Immigration advocacy group says Even though the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, the National Immigration Project said the relief feels “tempered and temporary” as the court allows the Trump administration to implement other restrictive policies. "Since the Supreme Court took this case, we have been holding our breath – today, we exhale, but our relief feels tempered and temporary,” Sirine Shebaya, the executive director of the National Immigration Project, said.“This executive order was never really about citizenship policy. It was about power—about testing whether a president can simply declare a constitutional provision means something other than what it says, and dare the courts to stop him. Today they did. But this should have been the easiest case the Court heard all year. The fact that this was a fight at all should trouble us as much as the outcome relieves us.’Shebaya pointed to dissents from four justices who argued they should have allowed President Donald Trump to restrict birthright citizenship via an executive order. She also pointed to other decisions this week that allowed the administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status from Haitians and Syrians as well as a decision that allows the administration to implement a turn-back policy at the US border. “We are watching this country move, decision by decision, toward becoming an authoritarian, white supremacist autocracy. Today’s decision lets us hold on to increasingly slippery hope that we are not there yet.”Ariana Baio30 June 2026 20:50Riley Gains calls Supreme Court transgender athlete ruling ‘a victory’Riley Gaines, a conservative activist who became outspoken against transgender women and girls competing in sports, called the Supreme Court’s decision a “a victory.”Gaines made headlines in 2022 when she tied with Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, for fifth place in their collegiate swimming competition. She became an advocate for banning transgender women and girls from competing on women’s and girls’ sports teams, leading the “Save Women’s Sports” movement. “The law of the land now reflects reality and common sense,” Gaines wrote on X. “Insane that this requires celebrating, but it’s a victory nonetheless.”Ariana Baio30 June 2026 20:18Trump trolls birthright citizenship decision by congratulating ChinaIn the wake of the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling, the president congratulated the Chinese President Xi Jinping and China on its “WIN” – trolling the court’s decision.“I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday.Ariana Baio30 June 2026 19:50'We’re right and he’s wrong' lawmaker says of birthright citizenship rulingRep. Adriano Espaillat, a former undocumented immigrant who now chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, applauded the Supreme Court’s ruling on birthright citizenship – declaring that Trump was wrong to try to get rid of it.“Trump tried to erase one of our nation’s clearest constitutional guarantees, and he failed. We won, and he failed. We’re right, and he’s wrong,” Espaillat said.“We will not be held to a different standard. That our children who were born here are U.S. born children, irregardless of our status and that we belong and we deserve to have all the rights and privileges extended to all Americans by the U.S. Constitution.”(AP)Ariana Baio30 June 2026 19:34What the Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending meansThe Supreme Court lifted restrictions on how much a national political party can spend in coordination with an individual candidate for advertising or other expenses. In a 6-3 decision, the conservative majority of the court said the spending cap violated the First Amendment – based on the interpretation that political spending is a form of speech. Political parties were previously restricted on how much they could spend in coordination with a campaign; the limit varied based on House and Senate elections. But Republican committees, joined by then-Senator JD Vance, argued the cap on spending violated a 2001 Supreme Court ruling, Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee v. FEC.Ariana Baio30 June 2026 19:09Ariana Baio30 June 2026 18:54Ariana Baio30 June 2026 18:20