Throughout the current term, the Supreme Court has sided with the Trump Administration on most things, from trans participation in youth sports to campaign finance. But on Tuesday, the highest court in the land handed the White House a defeat on birthright citizenship.
According to the Associated Press, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, struck down Trump’s executive order that would have eliminated birthright citizenship. That was part of Trump’s immigration crackdown, which would have eliminated the idea that anyone born in the United States is a citizen.
“The decision, in line with the longstanding judicial interpretation of the 14th Amendment, comes on the final day of a Supreme Court term that has centered on Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power — and largely ruled in his favor,” the AP reported.
The US Supreme Court voted to uphold birthright citizenship in a 6-3 decision
Majority
🟥Amy Coney Barrett
🟥Brett Kavanaugh
🟥John Roberts
🟦Ketanji Brown Jackson
🟦Elena Kagan
🟦Sonia Sotomayor
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Dissent
🟥Samuel Alito
🟥Neil Gorsuch
🟥Clarence Thomas https://t.co/v8v4tu0MVk pic.twitter.com/7fsSLD2I1U— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) June 30, 2026
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In the decision, the court’s three liberals were joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote for the majority, as well as Trump-appointed Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, though Kavanaugh wrote a separate opinion. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neal Gorsuch were in the minority.
“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote, per the New York Times. “The framers of the 14th Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’”
“With the decision, the Supreme Court has now invalidated a second of Mr. Trump’s signature initiatives from his second term, joining its ruling striking down many of his tariffs in February,” CBS News reported on the decision. “The president signed his directive aiming to restrict birthright citizenship on his first day back in the White House as part of a sweeping crackdown on immigration.”
Per the Times, the order “faced immediate legal challenges, as civil rights organizations, immigrant advocacy groups and expectant parents sued, successfully winning in court to block the order while lawsuits unfolded.”
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