Donald J.Trump calls on Congress to end birthright citizenship after Supreme Court loss
urged lawmakers to pass legislation ending birthright citizenship after the high court upheld the constitutional guarantee in a 5-4 ruling.
WHITE HOUSE — Donald J.Trump demanded Congress pass legislation to end birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court upheld the practice on June 30, 2026.
Here is the full post (see truthsocial): “The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process. No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support! Donald J.Trump”
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship was unconstitutional (see time.com). Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberal justices to reject the order, which sought to restrict automatic citizenship to children with at least one parent who is a citizen or legal resident.
“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community,” Roberts wrote in the majority opinion (see time.com). He concluded that children born on U.S. soil to parents present unlawfully or temporarily remain entitled to citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
The ruling marked one of the most significant defeats of Trump’s second term. It followed recent high court decisions striking down his global tariffs and blocking his attempt to remove a Federal Reserve governor (see time.com). Trump had warned before the decision that “dumb judges and justices” could undermine the country.
Trump’s post framed the loss as a temporary setback and argued that Congress could bypass the court through ordinary legislation rather than a constitutional amendment. Legal scholars have debated whether a statute could override the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, which was ratified in 1868 to guarantee rights for formerly enslaved people and their descendants (see pbs.org).
The executive order at the center of the case was issued on the first day of Trump’s second term and has never taken effect after lower courts blocked it (see washingtonpost.com). Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that children of “temporarily present aliens” fall outside the amendment’s protections, but justices from both ideological wings expressed skepticism during oral arguments in April.
Trump attended those oral arguments in person, marking the first time a sitting president appeared at a Supreme Court hearing (see time.com). He claimed afterward that the United States was “the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow “Birthright” Citizenship,” though 32 other countries maintain similar laws, Pew Research Center has found (see time.com).
In the last 30 days, 14 of 553 Trump posts on Truth Social addressed the topic of immigration.
Source: Zenger real-time database of all Truth Social posts.
Note: Chart generated on June 30, 2026 at 11:28 AM EST
Source: Zenger analysis
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