Donald Trump has seemingly threatened to break the law in light of the Supreme Court ruling against him.One of the first executive orders that president signed when he returned to office in January 2025 was to end birthright citizenship in America.”Birthright citizenship is the principle that people born in the United States are Americans—full members of our society from the moment they are born,” explains the American Immigration Council.It reflects a simple and powerful idea: if you’re born here, you belong here.”Birthright citizenship is part of the American constitution and has been since 1868 following the American Civil War.

Despite it being more than a century old, Trump still wanted to change the 14th amendment. In his executive order, the president wanted to change it so children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.However, the Supreme Court ruled against him and his administration yesterday (June 30).The court struck down the US president’s order by a vote of 6-3.A bare majority of five justices, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, held that the long-settled understanding of the 14th amendment makes a citizen of anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions.”Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The framers of the fourteenth amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land’,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the court, citing congressional debate over the amendment.”We keep that promise today.”The Republican president’s restrictions had been blocked by several lower courts and had not taken effect anywhere in the US.