The Supreme Court of the United States approved the birthright against Trump

On Truth Social, Trump called the court’s decision “very bad” and said he would continue to fight to end birthright citizenship by law.

“A long and unsuccessful constitutional amendment is not necessary,” he said. “Congress must act today to eliminate birthright citizenship, which is costly and unfair to our country.”

The United States has granted citizenship to all those born in the country since 1868, a right enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution and later supported by decisions of the US Supreme Court.

“Citizenship, then and now, was a right to a right — to participate freely in our political community,” Justice Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every man upon this earth,'” he wrote.

The Supreme Court said, “We will fulfill this promise today.”

Three of the court’s nine judges did not dissent from the decision; Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito.

Justice Thomas, for his part, argued that the 14th Amendment was being repurposed for “political projects” and that freed slaves were originally intended to be “Americans.”

Samuel Alito, another of the dissenting justices, called the ruling “a grave mistake that grants citizenship to people who are born in this country,” including those who give birth to children and then return to their home countries.

The case was of great importance to President Donald Trump, who held a brief but historic meeting with the court to hear oral arguments in April.

On X, White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller — a supporter of stricter immigration laws — called it “one of the most destructive and outrageous decisions” in Supreme Court history.

“American citizenship is not the birthright of the world,” he said. “No provision of the Constitution can be read to call for our national self-destruction.”

But immigration advocates and opponents of the administration applauded the ruling.

Daryl Rodriguez, chief counsel at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said the decision “reinforces what we’ve known to be true for more than a hundred years.”

“Anyone born on American soil is born an American citizen, regardless of the legal status of their parents,” she added. As a nation, we have faced an incredible challenge to our collective will and won.