US Supreme Court rejects Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship

US Supreme Court rejects Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship Submitted by Yasmine El-Sabawi on Tue, 06/30/2026 - 18:24 The president signed the executive order on his very first day in office as part of a wide-ranging immigration crackdown Demonstrators gather outside the US Supreme Court building as the court begins hearing arguments on the legality of the Trump administration’s effort to limit birthright citizenship, in Washington, DC, on 1 April 2026 (Kylie Cooper/Reuters) Off In a long-awaited decision by a mostly conservative Supreme Court stacked by President Donald Trump, birthright citizenship will continue to be the law of the land in the US, a majority of the justices decided on Tuesday. The decision came down to a tight 5-4 ruling, although one justice who disagreed - Brett Kavanaugh - still said that longstanding federal law would have upheld birthright citizenship anyway. "Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights - to freely participate in our political community.