Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship | Texas News

Texas News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jun 30, 2026 · 2m

The Supreme Court just delivered a landmark ruling affirming birthright citizenship — anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen, regardless of their parents’ immigration status. The decision strikes down President Trump’s controversial executive order that sought to deny citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants or visitors, grounding its ruling firmly in the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause — a constitutional cornerstone dating back to Reconstruction. While the majority opinion upholds decades of legal precedent and reaffirms that citizenship is tied to place of…