Opponents rage – as Trump gains more power
Published 2025-06-29 15.14
A decision from the US Supreme Court gives Donald Trump even more power going forward.
Now opponents are furious, warning that the decision could become a threat to democracy.
- It is a frightening step towards authoritarian rule, says top Democrat Chuck Schumer.
The federal courts in the US are finding it harder to stop President Trump's decree that people born in the country will no longer receive automatic citizenship.
The country's highest court voted in favor this week.
But the decision does not only affect the issue of citizenship.
In practice, the ruling makes it easier for the president to get national decrees through in other cases as well, because it takes more for federal courts to be able to block them, reports CNN.
Trump calls it a “monumental victory”.
“We can now properly continue with cases that were wrongly stopped,” Trump said at a press conference after the decision.
This is important for Trump, who had as an election promise to revoke the right to citizenship at birth for children of parents who are not legally in the US. Several federal courts have blocked Trump’s decree, claiming that it violates the constitution.
Trump believes that it is about “radical left-wing judges” who wanted to ruin it for him.
During his previous presidential term, Donald Trump was able to appoint three new judges, which gave the Supreme Court a conservative majority of six judges to three, which also became the voting figures in this decision.
The Supreme Court of the United States has a conservative majority. Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT
Reactions: “Existential threat to the rule of law”
The reactions to the decision from opponents have not been long in coming.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the liberal judges on the Supreme Court, accused the conservative judges of posing an “existential threat to the rule of law” by allowing Donald Trump to “violate the Constitution”:
“Ultimately, the executive branch will be completely unfettered – and our beloved constitutional republic will no longer exist,” she wrote in a statement after the decision.
The Democratic minority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, did not hold back either.
– This is an unprecedented and frightening step towards authoritarian rule, a serious danger to our democracy and a predictable move from this extreme Maga court, he said in a statement, according to Sky News.
Not entirely decided
But the decision is not written in stone.
Now several states are expected to go to a lower court in the hope of having the decision paused, while the courts decide whether it is consistent with the constitution or not.
– We believe we will win when the lower courts review this, says California's Attorney General, Democrat Rob Bonta, to CNN.
Attorney General Pam Bondi disagrees. She says the administration is "very confident" that it will pass, reports Sky News.
With fewer opportunities for federal courts to block Trump, the actual question of citizenship will be voted on when the Supreme Court reconvenes after the summer.
“The question of citizenship at birth will be decided in October, during the next session of the Supreme Court,” Bondi said.
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