Right to citizenship confirmed – Trump: “Bad”

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Updated 19.03 | Published 17.05

 

The US Supreme Court took up Trump’s decree to revoke the right to citizenship at birth in the US in December last year, and issued its negative decision on Tuesday. Archive photo. Photo: Mariam Zuhaib/AP/TT

The US Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s decree to revoke the right to citizenship at birth in the US.

“Bad for our country,” Trump writes on Truth Social.

Instead, he is placing his hope in Congress:

“We can easily change this in Congress through legislation.”

The Supreme Court stated in Tuesday's decision that the court's assessment leans towards the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship at birth, ratified by Congress in 1868, three years after the end of the American Civil War.

The president's executive order has been a cornerstone of the Trump administration's campaign against irregular migrants in the United States.

Lower courts around the United States have blocked the executive order, which has not become law in any state.

"Those who wrote the 14th Amendment made a promise to 'every free person born in this country,'" Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the ruling.