Recent Supreme Court Ruling Protects Birthright Citizenship
(Washington)—In his latest desperate attempt to unlawfully change the US Constitution to meet the needs of his xenophonic agenda, President Trump issued two executive orders on Aug. 6, 2026, aimed at ending birthright citizenship, mere weeks after the Supreme Court, in Trump v. Barbara, rightfully rejected his administration’s attempt to alter the protections of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) said no executive order issued by this lawless administration can change the 14th amendment’s meaning and application and will no doubt fail, yet again, in any legal setting. Birthright citizenship guarantees that anyone born in the U.S. is a US citizen and is treated equally under the law.
The executive orders highlight the administration’s blatant xenophobia. The orders attempt to create limitations to constitutionally-protected birthright citizenship based on vague, undefined and overbroad categories, which if ever allowed to go into effect would disproportionately impact pregnant women and women of reproductive age, as well as children of those the administration deems “alien enemies.”
The Trump administration has apparently forgotten what Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion issued last month: “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.”