Supreme Court schedules April 1 hearing on Trump's birthright citizenship executive order

The Supreme Court announced it will hear oral arguments on April 1, 2026, in a landmark constitutional challenge to President Trump's January 20, 2025 executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents without legal status or with temporary legal status. The executive order, issued on Trump's first day back in office, directly challenges the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee that virtually everyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen. The Trump administration argues that birthright citizenship should only apply to those "completely subject" to U.S. political jurisdiction and owing "direct and immediate allegiance." Federal courts have temporarily blocked the order's implementation, but the administration has appealed. Civil rights groups have filed amicus briefs urging the Court to strike down the order, while Senate Republicans have defended it by citing concerns about "birth tourism." The case represents a fundamental ...

"Those born in the U.S. are not automatically entitled to citizenship under the 14th Amendment" — Trump administration legal argument presented in Supreme Court filings defending the executive order's reinterpretation of birthright citizenship