The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a landmark executive order by President Donald Trump. The order seeks to limit the right to birthright citizenship. It reinstated the long-standing Fourteenth Amendment rule that nearly all children born on American soil would acquire citizenship. The landmark ruling will have far-reaching implications for the nation’s immigration policy and constitutional law.
The order, signed by Trump on his first day in office in January, was intended to deny automatic citizenship to children of parents who are in the United States illegally or on temporary visas. This provision provides for citizenship only to the children of US citizens or permanent residents. But the Supreme Court upheld the Southern Court’s ruling by a 6-3 vote, dealing a major blow to Trump’s immigration policy.
The case centered on the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. For the past 150 years, the department has granted citizenship to any child born in the United States. But lawyers for the government argued that the clause only applies to people whose primary allegiance is to the United States. The government also alleged that foreigners came to the United States solely for the purpose of giving citizenship to their children, but it could not provide any exact figures. In contrast, opponents claim that the US Constitution and centuries of legal process fully support birthright citizenship.
The trial began with a lawsuit filed by a group of parents and children in New Hampshire. According to legal experts, If Trump’s order is implemented, Dr‘They would take it, So about 150,000 newborns are affected each year‘Millions of families have to prove their children’s citizenship‘They would take it. President Trump himself attended the hearing, This is a rare event in American history. For the second time this year, the Supreme Court has struck down a major Trump policy, Earlier in February, the court also struck down its global tariff policy.