Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order in 6-3 Ruling

A Donald Trump executive order is being rejected by the Supreme Court.

The 80-year-old President of the United States issued an executive order at the start of his second term claiming that children born to parents in the U.S. illegally or temporarily are not American citizens, and the Supreme Court just rejected the order on Tuesday (June 30).

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court’s 6-3 opinion, via AP, adding, “We keep that promise today.”

The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

“Trump’s attempted assault on the 14th Amendment was dealt a major blow today. This decision is a powerful affirmation of the Constitution and the enduring promise of equality it represents,” said NAACP President Derrick Johnson in a statement.

Dissenters in the vote were Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito, per NPR.

Barack Obama is addressing Trump‘s repeated references to Obama and his apparent “fascination” with him.

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