Trump asks Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship
Protesters held signs that read: “Born in the USA = citizen!” They were carrying letters creating the slogan. Outside the U.S. Supreme Court building as the court hears oral arguments on the legality of the Trump administration’s effort to limit birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants in Washington, DC, USA, April 1, 2026.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will make a long-shot bid for the Supreme Court to reconsider the case in which it ruled against his executive order aimed at harshly restricting birthright citizenship.
On June 30, the Supreme Court ruled that babies born in the United States automatically become citizens under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The majority decision rejected Trump’s executive order, which sought to roll back those benefits for the children of many immigrants.
In the decree signed by Trump on January 20, 2025, it was stated that babies born in the USA would not be entitled to receive a citizenship certificate 30 days after the effective date if their parents immigrated illegally or were undocumented workers.
The Supreme Court did not agree to repeat a decision in a case that had already been debated since 1965, and the last time it overturned a decision it had made in a controversial case. case According to one report it was 1956 Article by Georgetown University Law Professor Steven Vladeck.
In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump claimed: “Signs and billboards are being posted all over our Southern Border and Mexico advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP with ‘Deliveries start at $4000.'”
“Likewise, similar signs are increasing all over our country,” he wrote. “Billions of Dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM and Citizenship will be given to anyone willing to pay.”
Trump said, “AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE! In fact, it is a crime and therefore the Supreme Court’s decision is wrong.”
“I will IMMEDIATELY ask the Supreme Court of the United States for a hearing. This injustice will destroy America if they don’t change their completely insane decision.”
Trump this week separately asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its June 29 denial of his petition to hear his appeal of a New York federal court jury verdict that found him civilly liable for sexually harassing and defaming author E. Jean Carroll.
A Manhattan District Court judge on Wednesday ordered that Carroll be distributed nearly $800,000 of the $5 million Trump deposited with the court to secure a 2023 settlement in that case, as well as about $800,000 in accrued interest, despite the president’s pending petition for reconsideration by the Supreme Court.
