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The Supreme Court on June 30, 2026, rejected President Trump’s bid to narrow birthright citizenship and invalidated Executive Order No. 14160. In Trump v. Barbara, the justices held that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-365_4hdj.pdf))

The case reached the court on certiorari before judgment from the First Circuit. The syllabus says the legal question was whether the Constitution guarantees citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present. The court answered yes, concluding that those children are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States within the meaning of the Citizenship Clause. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-365_4hdj.pdf))

Trump signed Executive Order No. 14160 on January 20, 2025. The order said children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present were not entitled to citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment or the Immigration and Nationality Act. The court rejected that reading and relied on the text, history, and precedent of the Citizenship Clause, including United States v. Wong Kim Ark. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-365_4hdj.pdf))

The decision leaves no room for the administration to enforce the order as written. It also reaffirms that the Constitution’s citizenship rule turns on birth on U.S. soil and the limited jurisdiction exceptions recognized in the court’s precedent, not on a parent’s immigration status. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-365_4hdj.pdf))