Trump says he will ask Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a case challenging his executive order restricting birthright citizenship, a long-shot bid to reverse the court’s rejection of one of his signature policies.

Last month, the court rejected Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, ruling that the directive violated language in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting citizenship to persons born in the United States and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

The U.S. Supreme Court rarely grants requests for rehearing cases and did not do so after ruling on a case that had been debated for decades.

The Republican president called the decision written by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts a “miscarriage of justice.”

“AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE! In fact, it is a crime and therefore the Supreme Court’s decision is wrong,” Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social. “I will IMMEDIATELY ask the U.S. Supreme Court for a hearing.”

Trump, who has repeatedly tested the limits of presidential power in domestic and foreign policy, issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship on his first day back in office last year as part of a series of policies to curb legal and illegal immigration.

(Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; Additional reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Michelle Nichols and Bill Berkrot)