{"id":282493,"date":"2026-06-30T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282493\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:33:10","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-trumps-efforts-to-end-birthright-citizenship-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282493\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Efforts to End Birthright Citizenship: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Abbie<\/a><\/p>\n

June 30, 2026, 12:17 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

A 1952 law was central to the birthright case.<\/a>A ship arriving at Ellis Island in 1951.Credit…Ernst Haas\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Most of the focus on the legal challenges to President Trump\u2019s executive order limiting birthright citizenship focused on the Constitution\u2019s 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n

That amendment, proposed and ratified during Reconstruction to enshrine basic rights for formerly enslaved people and their descendants, included what has come to be known as the \u201ccitizenship clause,\u201d which says that \u201call persons born\u201d in the United States and \u201csubject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s less commonly known is that Congress included this same language in sweeping, post-World War II immigration legislation.<\/p>\n

The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act was an attempt by Congress to combine the country\u2019s various laws governing immigration into one bill. It includes language that closely mirrors that of the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n

It states<\/a> that \u201cthe following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth,\u201d then under the first subhead, reads: \u201cA person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n

That legislation cleared the way for more immigration and naturalization from Asia, repealing the last of measures that had been in place before its passage that were designed to exclude Asian immigrants. But it remained controversial<\/a> \u2014 and was passed over the veto of President Harry S. Truman \u2014 because it retained a restrictive quota system that gave preferential treatment to immigrants from countries in Northern and Western Europe and it included anti-communism provisions that made it easier to deport immigrants who held views that at the time were considered subversive.<\/p>\n

The groups challenging President Trump\u2019s executive order had argued that it violated not only the Constitution but also the 1952 law, offering the statutory argument as a possible offramp that would allow the court to rule the executive order violated the federal law without deciding whether the constitution guarantees birthright citizenship. (The Supreme Court typically does not reach a constitutional question if it can decide a case on statutory grounds.)<\/p>\n

Setting aside any debate over what Congress meant when it amended the Constitution shortly after the Civil War, there\u2019s substantial evidence that the modern Congress intended to extend citizenship to people born on U.S. soil when it passed the 1952 law.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the Trump administration had countered<\/a> that, in their view, the court should reject that argument and examine what the phrase \u201cactually means, not what Congress thought it meant in 1940 or 1952.\u201d<\/p>\n

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