U.S. President Donald Trump reacted to the Supreme Court's decision to strike down his executive order restricting birthright citizenship. Trump announced he will request that the court review the ruling.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, "The Supreme Court's decision is wrong. I will immediately seek review from the U.S. Supreme Court," and described the ruling as 'crazy.' He added, "This judicial failure will destroy America if they do not reverse this crazy ruling."
On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down Trump's executive order that banned birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary foreign visitors. Citing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the court affirmed the entrenched principle that almost all children born on U.S. soil are citizens.
In the majority opinion, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. stated that Trump's executive order violated the 14th Amendment. Roberts emphasized that children born in the United States to undocumented immigrant parents or parents temporarily present in the country are birthright citizens.
On his first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order aimed at preventing automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who are in the country illegally or on temporary visas. Lower courts had blocked the order citing the Constitution. Such requests for review must be filed within 25 days of the court's decision and are rarely granted.
