Trump Seeks Supreme Court Rehearing on Birthright Citizenship
The Trump administration is making a long-shot legal move to get the Supreme Court to reconsider its birthright citizenship ruling.
The Trump administration is pushing for the Supreme Court to rehear its birthright citizenship case, a legal gambit widely considered unlikely to succeed given the Court's established procedures and its recent handling of the matter. The move signals the White House's continued commitment to challenging automatic citizenship for children born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally or on temporary visas.
Birthright citizenship is grounded in the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to all persons born on U.S. soil. Trump and his allies have long argued that the amendment was never intended to extend citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants, a constitutional interpretation rejected by decades of legal precedent and mainstream legal scholarship.
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Requests for the Supreme Court to rehear a case — known formally as petitions for rehearing — are exceedingly rare to succeed. The Court grants such petitions in only a small fraction of cases, making this latest maneuver more of a political and legal statement than a realistic path to reversing the ruling. Nevertheless, the administration appears intent on keeping the issue alive in both the courts and in public debate.
The birthright citizenship fight has been a cornerstone of Trump's immigration agenda since his first term, reflecting broader efforts to restrict legal and illegal immigration to the United States. Legal experts note that any definitive change to birthright citizenship would almost certainly require either a constitutional amendment or a landmark Supreme Court ruling explicitly overturning long-standing precedent — both extraordinarily difficult thresholds to clear.
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