The US Supreme Court today upheld birthright citizenship in a major defeat for US President Donald Trump and striking down his executive order.
According to CNN, Chief Justice John Roberts, calling citizenship “the right to have rights,” wrote for the court that “the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”
Trump went to the Supreme Court hearing on the issue in April, becoming the first president to attend oral arguments.
The American Civil Liberties Union’s Cecelia Wang called today’s Supreme Court decision in the birthright citizenship case a “celebration,” and wished “good luck” to Republicans in Congress who attempt to change birthright citizenship law, CNN reported.
“Ask any American what our citizenship rule is, and they will tell you if you’re born here, you’re a citizen, just like everyone else, and that couldn’t be more fundamental to who we are as a nation,” Wang, who argued the case before the justices in April, told CNN’s Pamela Brown.
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