President Donald Trump is signaling that the battle over birthright citizenship is far from over, pointing to language from a recent Supreme Court opinion that he believes provides Congress with a path to pursue immigration reforms through legislation instead of executive action.
The renewed push comes only days after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Trump’s executive order that sought to narrow automatic citizenship for certain children born in the United States. While the ruling marked a legal setback for the administration, one opinion from the Court has already become the focus of renewed conservative optimism.
On June 30, the Supreme Court issued its decision in the case challenging Executive Order 14160, the directive President Trump signed on his first day back in office on January 20, 2025. The order, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” instructed federal agencies to stop automatically recognizing U.S. citizenship for specific categories of children born on American soil.
