Trump Launches Attack on Birthright Citizenship, Seeks Supreme Court Reversal
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In a move targeting immigrant rights, former President Donald Trump announced plans to pressure the Supreme Court into overturning its June 30 decision that protected automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. Trump is also pursuing another legal maneuver related to his loss in the E. Jean Carroll case.
Former President Donald Trump, continuing his relentless campaign against immigrant communities, declared on Wednesday that he will ask the Supreme Court to rehear the case affirming birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court’s June 30 ruling had rejected Trump’s xenophobic executive order, signed on Jan. 20, 2025, which sought to strip citizenship from children whose parents entered the United States without documentation.
Legal scholars emphasize that the Supreme Court almost never grants rehearings for argued cases, with the last such reversal occurring in 1956, underscoring the futility and political theater of Trump’s request.
"American citizenship is not for sale," Trump claimed, using divisive rhetoric as he demanded an immediate rehearing.
Meanwhile, Trump is also attempting to evade accountability by petitioning the Court to reconsider its June 29 refusal to hear his appeal of a New York jury verdict that found him civilly liable for sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll. Despite Trump’s efforts to delay justice, a Manhattan district judge ordered that $5 million, plus interest, be paid to Carroll, even as Trump’s petition remains pending.