Trump Seeks Supreme Court Rehearing on Birthright Citizenship
WASHINGTON-U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will ask the Supreme Court to rehear its recent decision striking down his executive order restricting birthright citizenship, launching an extraordinary legal effort to revive one of the signature immigration policies of his second administration.
The announcement follows the court’s ruling last month that Trump’s executive order violated the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants citizenship to people born in the United States who are “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump described the decision as a “miscarriage of justice” and said he would immediately request that the Supreme Court reconsider the case.
“American citizenship is not for sale,” Trump wrote, arguing that the court had reached the wrong conclusion in rejecting his administration’s position.
The ruling was authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and rejected the administration’s attempt to narrow the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship through executive action.
Legal experts generally regard requests for Supreme Court rehearings as highly unlikely to succeed. The court rarely grants such petitions and has not reversed an argued case through the rehearing process in decades.
Trump signed the executive order on his first day after returning to office last year as part of a broader package of immigration measures aimed at tightening both legal and illegal immigration.
The birthright citizenship directive was one of the administration’s most closely watched immigration initiatives and immediately prompted legal challenges that ultimately reached the nation’s highest court.
The latest move reflects Trump’s continued effort to test the scope of presidential authority in advancing key domestic policy priorities through executive action, even after judicial setbacks.
If filed, the rehearing petition would ask the nine-member Supreme Court to reconsider its earlier judgment, although such requests face long odds under the court’s established practice.
