Overview
- President Trump said Wednesday he will ask the Supreme Court to rehear its June 30 decision that upheld near‑universal birthright citizenship, and his team must file a petition within the Court’s 25‑day window.
- The high court’s 6–3 ruling on June 30, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, relied on the 14th Amendment and the 1898 precedent United States v. Wong Kim Ark to find that most children born on U.S. soil are citizens at birth.
- Legal scholars and court historians call a rehearing unlikely because the justices rarely reopen fully argued cases and a majority would need to agree to reconsider a recent, fully briefed decision.
- Reports of Spanish‑language billboards advertising childbirth services near the southern border led Mission Regional Medical Center to remove the ads and prompted Texas Governor Greg Abbott to open a state probe.
- With the Court’s ruling intact for now, Republicans are debating congressional or constitutional paths to change the rule, a shift that would require new legislation or the far more difficult step of amending the Constitution.