Washington: The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, upholding that any person born on American soil is a citizen.
The Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship to children born in the US, including those whose parents are in the country unlawfully or only temporarily.
Hours after assuming office for the second term in January last year, Trump issued an executive order that aimed to limit birthright citizenship to people who have at least one legally present parent in the US.
In February, the court voted in a 6-3 majority decision to invalidate most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, dealing a major blow to the president’s trade agenda.
In March, the court struck down Colorado’s state law banning so-called conversion therapy – a practice which seeks to change the sexual orientation and gender identity of gay, lesbian, and transgender people.
In April, the justices restricted the ability of state lawmakers to take race into account when drawing electoral maps, a decision that has spawned new voting maps in Republican-led states that could impact the midterm elections in November.
Yesterday, the court blocked Trump’s attempts to immediately fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, saying she had not been given due process to contest allegations of mortgage fraud.
But it has also handed several wins for the Trump administration. It allowed the government to end Temporary Protected Status Haitians and Syrians living in the US.
The court also allowed Trump to remove officials from some independent federal institutions.
