{"id":2168,"date":"2026-06-30T20:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:11:13","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-birthright-citizenship-rejecting-trumps-proposed-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump\u2019s proposed limits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By MARK SHERMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A divided\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of\u00a0birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.<\/p>\n

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By a 6-3 vote, the court struck down Trump\u2019s order. A bare majority of five justices, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, held that the long-settled understanding of\u00a0the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, makes a citizen of anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions,<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights\u2014to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to \u2018every free-born person in this land,\u2019\u201d Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court, citing congressional debate over the amendment, \u201cWe keep that promise today.\u201d<\/p>\n

A sixth justice, Brett Kavanaugh, disagreed about the constitutional ruling, but pointed to a federal law that he said broadly conveys birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n

Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have upheld Trump\u2019s proposed restrictions.<\/p>\n