The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14160 (“Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship”) seeking to end birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States.
Trump signed that EO on January 20, 2025 — his first day in office for the second term.
It took effect 30 days later (targeting births after ~Feb. 19/20, 2025) and sought to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to children born in the U.S. if neither parent was a citizen or lawful permanent resident (specifically when the mother was unlawfully present or on temporary lawful status).
The Fourteenth Amendment is a pivotal amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified on July 9, 1868, during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War. It was designed to grant citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to formerly enslaved people, and to overturn the Dred Scott decision, which had denied citizenship to African Americans.
The Supremes just twisted the intentions of that important amendment to further open the United States to foreign and potentially subversive elements.
Birth tourism, especially from China, is a real practice that exploits the broad reading of the 14th Amendment, and Alito (along with other dissenters) rightly called out the mismatch between 1868 realities and today’s incentives. And so, this post by the President is on point…
Eric Daugherty on X: Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito just went MAXIMUM BASED on the Supreme Court against birthright citizenship for illegal invaders.
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The Five weigh in…
And here’s a fun animation that makes the same point about a really bad decision…
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