The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship for nearly all children born on American soil, rejecting the Trump administration's effort to narrow the scope of the 14th Amendment.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices struck down Trump's executive order seeking to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are in the country illegally or temporarily on visas. The ruling preserves a constitutional principle that has existed for more than 125 years and is expected to affect hundreds of thousands of births annually.
