Demonstrators held up letters with the slogan “Born in America = Citizen!” Outside the U.S. Supreme Court building during oral arguments on the legality of the Trump administration’s efforts to limit birthright citizenship for immigrant children, April 1, 2026, in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would make a major effort to get the Supreme Court to review a case that ruled against an executive order that sought to sharply limit birthright citizenship.
The Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that babies born in the United States automatically have citizenship under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The majority ruling rejected President Trump’s executive order that sought to rescind that benefit for many immigrant children.
President Trump’s executive order, signed on January 20, 2025, states that 30 days after the effective date, infants born in the United States will not be entitled to citizenship documents if their parents are in the country illegally or are working illegally.
The Supreme Court has not agreed to reconsider a contested case since 1965, and the last time it overturned a contested decision was in 1956, according to an article by Georgetown University law professor Stephen Vladeck.
In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, President Trump claimed that “billboards and billboards have been placed on the southern border and throughout Mexico advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP with ‘Deliveries starting at $4,000’.” ”
“Likewise, similar signs are emerging across our country,” he wrote. “Billions of dollars have been illegally made through this fraud, and citizenship will be granted to those willing to pay.”
President Trump said, “American citizenship is not for sale! In fact, it is a crime and therefore the Supreme Court’s decision is wrong.”
“I will immediately ask the United States Supreme Court to reconsider this case. If they do not change their completely insane decision, this miscarriage of justice will destroy America.”
Separately this week, Trump asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its June 29 denial of his petition to hear Trump’s appeal of a New York federal jury verdict that found author E. Jean Carroll civilly liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
A Manhattan District Court judge on Wednesday ordered Carroll to distribute $5 million, plus about $800,000 in unpaid interest, that President Trump deposited with the court to secure a 2023 damages award, despite the president’s pending appeal to the Supreme Court.
