Overview
- The Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that the Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship at birth to most people born on U.S. soil and struck down President Trump’s Executive Order 14160 that tried to limit that rule.
- President Trump announced on Wednesday that he will ask the Supreme Court for a rehearing of the case, posting the claim on Truth Social and repeating allegations about billboards promoting cheap childbirth for citizenship.
- Legal scholars and court historians say a rehearing is a long shot because the Court almost never reopens fully argued cases and has not granted such a rehearing in decades.
- Reporting on the billboards cited by the president shows the ads listed hospital birth prices and did not promise citizenship, and Texas authorities have launched a review of the marketing.
- Because the Court grounded its decision in the Constitution and precedent such as United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the practical paths to change are narrow and would likely require new federal legislation crafted to meet constitutional limits or the much harder step of amending the Constitution.