GRIEVANCE XIII ◆ LIBERTY AND DUE PROCESS
He has sought to withhold citizenship from children born beneath the Constitution’s protection.
THE RECORD SHOWS
Trump attempted to narrow birthright citizenship by executive order; the Supreme Court rejected the effort in June 2026.
The order would have denied automatic citizenship to some U.S.-born children based on parental status. The Supreme Court rejected the administration’s bid; the ruling preserves the established statutory protection, while the opinions differed in how they treated the Fourteenth Amendment.
A DOCUMENTED SEQUENCE
3 MILESTONES- January 20, 2025Trump signed an order directing agencies to deny automatic citizenship to certain children born in the United States.
- 2025Lower courts repeatedly blocked the order; a separate Supreme Court case narrowed universal injunctions.
- June 30, 2026The Supreme Court rejected the birthright-citizenship order in a 6–3 ruling, while justices differed on constitutional and statutory reasoning.