Trump's order to end birthright citizenship

Challengers turned to class actions. Another federal judge said he would block the order for every child it affected,^[14] a judge in Maryland issued a similar ruling,^[15] and appeals courts upheld the blocks.^[16][17] The administration again asked the Supreme Court to uphold the order,^[18] and in December the court agreed to decide whether it was constitutional.^[19] At argument on April 1, 2026, in Trump v. Barbara, the justices were skeptical of the administration's case.^[2][5]

On June 30 the Supreme Court struck down the order, with a majority upholding the long understanding of automatic citizenship for those born on American soil.^[5] Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a concurrence tracing the 14th Amendment's history.^[20] The Justice Department let the deadline to seek reconsideration pass.^[21] On August 6 Trump signed two new executive orders aimed at limiting citizenship for certain people born in the US and at "birth tourism";^[22][6] the ACLU challenged them,^[23] the State Department set up a task force on birth tourism,^[24] and in September US District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland blocked the new orders.^[7]