The Supreme Court decided to protect birthright citizenship in a ruling on Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s effort to redefine who gets to be an American.
In the last decision of the term, the justices kept in place the 14th Amendment right of all people born in the country to be granted U.S. citizenship. It was a major blow for Trump, who launched his second term with an executive order meant to deny U.S. citizenship to babies born to undocumented immigrants and those on temporary visas.
The Supreme Court has OK’d several Trump moves to reshape the country, but his attempt to thwart long-standing precedent to narrow the scope of the 14th Amendment proved a bridge too far, with Chief Justice John Roberts calling it a “dramatically revisionist view” in the court’s opinion in Trump v. Barbara.