The Supreme Court just satisfied millions of Americans with a birthright citizenship ruling that Donald Trump attempted to limit. The justices delivered a landmark decision on one of the administration’s most controversial immigration policies.
Supreme Court makes a decision on birthright citizenship.
The US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision upholding birthright citizenship and striking down President Donald Trump’s attempts to limit it, BBC reports. The ruling caps a busy 2025-2026 term for the court. Chief Justice John Roberts gave this verdict.
The birthright citizenship decision stands as one of several monumental rulings the court delivered this term. In a separate ruling today, the court also decided that states can ban transgender women from competing in female school and college sports. Both decisions arrived on the final day of the term’s opinion schedule.
The court handed Trump multiple setbacks throughout the term. In February, justices voted in a 6-3 majority decision to invalidate most of Trump’s global tariffs. The ruling dealt a major blow to the president’s trade agenda. The court also blocked Trump’s attempts to immediately fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
The justices ruled that Cook had not been given due process to contest allegations of mortgage fraud. In March, the court struck down Colorado’s state law banning so-called conversion therapy. In April, justices restricted the ability of state lawmakers to take race into account when drawing electoral maps. That decision has spawned new voting maps in Republican-led states that could impact November’s midterm elections.
However, the term also delivered several wins for the Trump administration. The court allowed the government to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians living in the US. It also allowed Trump to remove officials from some independent federal institutions. The term’s rulings reflect a court actively shaping major policy battles across immigration, trade, civil rights, and executive power.
Originally reported by Vritti Johar on Mandatory.com.