The Supreme Court on Tuesday wiped out President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine birthright citizenship, an effort to restrict American citizenship without Congress that cut against more than a century of legal precedent.
The 6-3 decision, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. writing a five-justice majority opinion, backed a challenge to the order, which would disallow citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrant parents or those with temporary legal status.
