The US Supreme Court wrapped its 2025-2026 term on June 30, 2026, with a pair of rulings that dealt significant blows to two of President Donald Trump’s most prominent policy ambitions. The Court invalidated Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship and separately ruled that the president lacks authority to impose broad tariffs unilaterally under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Both decisions landed with identical 6-3 margins.
Birthright citizenship survives, again
In Trump v. Barbara, the Court struck down an executive order that sought to deny citizenship to children born on US soil to undocumented immigrants and those on temporary visas. Chief Justice Roberts authored the majority opinion, reaffirming the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
The Supreme Court settled this question back in 1898 with United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which established that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to virtually anyone born within US borders.
