The Trump administration is seeking to roll back the historical understanding that birthright citizenship extends to almost anyone born in the United States.

The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide the legality of President Trump's executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship​.

The Supreme Court’s ruling, expected by summer 2026, will determine whether the 14th Amendment secures what one brief calls a “sweeping…grant of U.S. citizenship” to virtually all people born on American soil, or whether, as critics argue, citizenship should instead depend on a “mutual recognition of allegiance” between family and state.

President Trump proposes ending birthright citizenship and implementing merit-based immigration system to address the country's broken immigration laws.

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of President Donald Trump's directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious part of his efforts to curb immigration and a step that would alter how a 19th century constitutional provision has long been understood.

President Donald Trump plans to end birthright citizenship through an Executive Order. This means babies of non-citizens born in the United States would no longer be granted citizenship. Right now, the 14th Amendment gives citizenship to anyone born or ...

The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide on the principle of birthright citizenship, which holds that all children born on US soil are American citizens. The principle of birthright

The case under review comes from New Hampshire. A federal judge in July blocked the citizenship order in a class action lawsuit including all children who would be affected. The American Civil Liberties Union is leading the legal team representing the children and their parents who challenged Trump’s order.

When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the president's sweeping attempt to gut the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship -- it effectively placed one of the Constitution's most settled commitments on the docket.

Birthright citizenship belongs only to US-born children of parents who, like the freed slaves, owe this nation their political allegiance.