Big News On Birthright Citizenship
Supreme Court Limits Nationwide Injunctions, Reining in the Judiciary
Hi friends,
With the usual caveats, SCOTUS has handed down a good ruling about nationwide injunctions that directly affects President Trump’s Executive Order about birthright citizenship.
This is a win for America and Americans, present and future.
Summary:
In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court held that federal judges exceeded their authority in issuing nationwide injunctions that blocked enforcement of President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.
The Legalese:
The full ruling is here.
In Other Words:
If a child is born in the U.S., they don’t automatically receive citizenship if:
The mother’s presence was legal but temporary (such as on a student visa, tourist visa, or through the Visa Waiver Program), and
The father was neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident at the time of the child’s birth.
This is a significant shift.
Traditionally, the 14th Amendment has granted citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of the parents’ status.
President Trump’s Executive Order 14160, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship”, established a policy that revises the interpretation that children born in the U.S. to temporary legal residents are automatically granted citizenship.
Since the Court’s ruling was narrow in scope, it does not address or overturn prior precedent—such as United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), which previously upheld birthright citizenship for children of immigrants.
Where the Supreme Court Leaned
The Court’s ruling did not directly uphold or strike down the birthright citizenship change. Instead, it ruled that lower courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions against the policy unless the plaintiff is directly harmed.
This curtails, and may eliminate, the power of lower-court judges to block President Trump’s executive orders nationwide—a strategy that has been widely used against his administration.
As a result, the Trump administration can now enforce the citizenship order except in the specific districts where injunctions may still apply.
So, President Trump’s policy gains ground, and the balance of legal power shifts away from activist judges and toward executive enforcement.
1. Lower Court Battles Will Continue
Lawsuits will still be filed by groups like the ACLU and immigrant rights organizations.
But due to this SCOTUS ruling, they cannot freeze it nationwide anymore. That’s huge.
2. A Bigger SCOTUS Showdown Is Likely
Eventually, the core question will come back to the Supreme Court:
“Does Trump’s order violate the 14th Amendment?”
That case is not settled yet — but if/when it comes, this court seems more open to reevaluating the original intent of the 14th Amendment—particularly in the context of temporary or unauthorized residency.
3. Political Implications
This ruling accelerates a rollback of the “anchor baby” interpretation—a long-criticized distortion of the Constitution’s original purpose.
President Trump’s approach reasserts executive authority and overcomes the kind of legal entanglements that undermined his first-term immigration reforms.
If ultimately upheld, the policy would significantly limit automatic citizenship for children born to:
Foreign tourists
Temporary visa holders (e.g., students, seasonal workers)
Illegal immigrants
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I think future showdowns are highly unlikely. Individual plaintiffs will receive the relief they seek and the EO will continue to be executed on a national scale. The Government repeatedly indicated at oral argument that it was happy to lose one individual plaintiff at a time. https://www.americascoach.com/p/the-casa-con-executive-overreach
I am not a lawyer, and I haven't been in a Holiday Inn Express in years however, reading the text of the 14th Amendment, and ascribing to it the meaning assumed by the writers, it seems the amendment applies to the children of ex-slaves only. That was the stated purpose of the amendment, that's what the language says. If you aren't a citizen you're not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof", you are a subject of your native land.
An amendment that was meant to solidify the standing of the children of ex-slaves gets used for a purpose for which it was not written - time for SCOTUS to fix this problem once and for all.