Supreme Court Rejects Trump Order and Keeps Birthright Citizenship Intact

Overview

• The Supreme Court on June 30, 2026 ruled 6–3 that President Trump’s executive order denying automatic citizenship to most children born in the United States is invalid and reaffirmed the 1898 Wong Kim Ark precedent.
• The decision preserves the broad interpretation of the 14th Amendment that people born on U.S. soil are citizens except in narrow cases, and it sustains lower‑court injunctions that had blocked the order nationwide.
• In a separate set of opinions the Court upheld state bans on transgender girls competing in female school sports, with a unanimous ruling on Title IX and a 6–3 split on equal‑protection grounds that leaves the policy area to state law and courts.
• President Trump urged Congress to pass new legislation to end birthright citizenship and some Republicans said they will pursue a constitutional amendment, while civil‑rights groups celebrated the ruling as a protection of long‑standing rights.
• Experts warned that a lawful change to birthright citizenship could have affected roughly 200,000–255,000 births a year and created administrative and health‑care problems, and the ruling shifts any future changes to Congress, state legislatures, and further litigation.