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BumRushDaShow

(160,898 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:42 PM Friday

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship

Source: CNN Politics

Updated Sep 26, 2025, 6:15 PM ET
PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2025, 6:11 PM ET


The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back before the justices for the second time this year.

Despite more than a century of understanding that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on people born in the United States, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court that notion was “mistaken” and that the view became “pervasive, with destructive consequences.”

“The lower court’s decisions invalidated a policy of prime importance to the president and his administration in a manner that undermines our border security,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer, the administration’s top appellate attorney, told the Supreme Court in the appeal. “Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people.”

CNN reviewed a copy of the appeal, which has not yet been docketed at the high court.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/politics/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump-appeal



Four Appeals Courts told him to go pound sand.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Friday OP
True, but he owns Bettie Friday #1
I hope they send me to Scotland or Ireland, then. C Moon Friday #12
They can send Donnie with you to Scotland, where his mother came from IronLionZion Friday #16
Why thank you. :o C Moon Friday #19
So that means Barron montanacowboy Friday #2
Per Reuters, Bayard Friday #4
You sure about that? Prairie Gates Friday #18
What? Bayard Saturday #24
But his mother was "an illegal" BumRushDaShow Sunday #28
You sure about that? Prairie Gates Sunday #29
She was not. mgardener Friday #8
You called it! homegirl Saturday #23
It doesn't matter Bayard Sunday #30
No, you can't do that dipshit Bayard Friday #3
The Constitution also plainly states that... Shipwack Friday #15
Hopefully, the SCOTUS will reject this silly attempt LetMyPeopleVote Friday #5
This shouldn't even be an issue. J_William_Ryan Friday #6
It was also true of other cases. Igel Friday #7
SC: "Of course Your Highness! Why even ask?" C Moon Friday #9
Is this retroactive,? What a nightmare. What about all the Russian women who came here to have their babies? Srkdqltr Friday #10
DOGE & Palantir have the data. TommyT139 Friday #13
Good lord dweller Friday #11
Absurd Cirsium Friday #14
The corrupt Supreme Cort will merely do Trump's bidding Prairie Gates Friday #17
It's sad we have a majority on the court that's not so supreme. mdbl Saturday #20
Their goddam job is to tell Krasnov MLWR Saturday #21
WHO'S FIRS TO GO? homegirl Saturday #22
See post #4 Bayard Saturday #25
If shithole asks JBTaurus83 Saturday #26
IOW, Trump asks SCOTUS to rule The Constitution unconstitutional, no_hypocrisy Sunday #27
Deadline Legal Blog-After he tried to avoid it, Trump now asks Supreme Court to rule on birthright citizenship LetMyPeopleVote 17 hrs ago #31

Bettie

(18,909 posts)
1. True, but he owns
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:47 PM
Friday

The SC.

They will probably let him take citizenship from millions retroactively. I mean, technically we are all birthright citizens, right unless we were naturalized

montanacowboy

(6,603 posts)
2. So that means Barron
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:48 PM
Friday

is NOT a citizen if he is allowed to do this? I think Melonia was not a citizen when he was born.

Bayard

(27,172 posts)
4. Per Reuters,
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:59 PM
Friday

"All five of President-elect Donald Trump’s children fulfill two criteria for automatic U.S. citizenship - they were born to at least one U.S.-citizen parent and they were born in the United States - so they would not lose citizenship, as social media posts suggest, if Trump does away with so-called birthright citizenship, as he has promised to do."

No such luck.

homegirl

(1,861 posts)
23. You called it!
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 03:15 PM
Saturday

Have You forgotten...that Barron Trump was born 4 months before mommy got her papers.
This "demand" from Trump unambiguously declares that BARRON TRUMP IS NOT A U.S. CITIZEN.

Trump Asks Supreme Court To Uphold Restrictions He Wants To Impose On Birthright Citizenship
The Justice Department's petition has been shared with lawyers for parties challenging the order, but is not yet docketed at the Supreme Court.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-uphold-restrictions-he-wants-to-impose-on-birthright-citizenship_n_68d7df1ae4b0f354d3d23e11

Bayard

(27,172 posts)
3. No, you can't do that dipshit
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:56 PM
Friday

Its in the Constitution. It also strictly forbids tyrannical behavior. It sets up 3 CO-EQUAL branches of government.

Unless he just orders the Syncophantic Six to set a torch to the entire Constitution.....

Shipwack

(2,866 posts)
15. The Constitution also plainly states that...
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 10:07 PM
Friday

… People who have been accused of insurrection cannot hold a federal office.

That’s clear as day, but when a state tried to enforce it the literallists on the court declared that the amendment didn’t count because they didn’t list an enforcement mechanism.

J_William_Ryan

(3,034 posts)
6. This shouldn't even be an issue.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:07 PM
Friday

The case law is settled, accepted, and beyond dispute.

Of course, the same was true of Roe.

Given this conservative Court and its contempt for settled, accepted case law, it could very well rule in favor of the racist, bigoted Trump.

Igel

(37,124 posts)
7. It was also true of other cases.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:39 PM
Friday

Like Plessy.

Settled, until it wasn't.

Just saying that if long-standing precedent must be followed, there are many things we'd think were utterly reprehensible but were "settled law" and untouchable. To the detriment of our values.

Srkdqltr

(8,949 posts)
10. Is this retroactive,? What a nightmare. What about all the Russian women who came here to have their babies?
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:57 PM
Friday

How could they keep track?

Cirsium

(2,915 posts)
14. Absurd
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 09:21 PM
Friday

Almost everyone in the country enjoys birthright citizenship. About 86.9 percent of people living in the United States are native-born citizens, 6 percent are naturalized citizens, and 7.1 percent are not citizens. 298,000,000 of us would lose citizenship rights overnight if Trump prevails.

Prairie Gates

(6,363 posts)
17. The corrupt Supreme Cort will merely do Trump's bidding
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 10:42 PM
Friday

They are people without character or principles, and certainly without any commitment to law or honor.

MLWR

(571 posts)
21. Their goddam job is to tell Krasnov
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 08:57 AM
Saturday

That sure he can but he has to go through the amendment process as it is outlined in the Constitution. So, of course, the six fascist Enablers won't do that.

homegirl

(1,861 posts)
22. WHO'S FIRS TO GO?
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 03:14 PM
Saturday

Have You forgotten...that Barron Trump was born 4 months before mommy got her papers.
This "demand" from Trump unambiguously declares that BARRON TRUMP IS NOT A U.S. CITIZEN.

Trump Asks Supreme Court To Uphold Restrictions He Wants To Impose On Birthright Citizenship
The Justice Department's petition has been shared with lawyers for parties challenging the order, but is not yet docketed at the Supreme Court.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-uphold-restrictions-he-wants-to-impose-on-birthright-citizenship_n_68d7df1ae4b0f354d3d23e11

JBTaurus83

(688 posts)
26. If shithole asks
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 11:08 PM
Saturday

They deliver. Don’t get excited thinking they will do what is right. We are in a post constitutional country.

no_hypocrisy

(53,214 posts)
27. IOW, Trump asks SCOTUS to rule The Constitution unconstitutional,
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:58 AM
Sunday

leading to invalidating the entire document.

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,354 posts)
31. Deadline Legal Blog-After he tried to avoid it, Trump now asks Supreme Court to rule on birthright citizenship
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 05:14 PM
17 hrs ago

The administration had previously urged the justices to rule only on a procedural issue in the case, not the merits of the issue.

After he tried to avoid it, Trump now asks Supreme Court to rule on birthright citizenship - MSNBC apple.news/AYGjPgS6YQBG...

(@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-09-29T20:14:56.977Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/birthright-citizenship-trump-supreme-court-rcna234469

The Trump administration has urged the Supreme Court to rule quickly on several of its policy priorities in President Donald Trump’s second term — and it has been fairly successful in doing so. Yet, when it comes to Trump’s birthright citizenship order, the administration has taken a more leisurely approach that suggests a lack of confidence in what even this Supreme Court would say if pressed to rule on the order’s legality.

But now the administration has finally asked the high court to weigh in on the merits of Trump’s order, which effectively aimed to unilaterally rewrite the Constitution, law and precedent — or at the very least, the long-held understanding of those things.....

The high court majority issued the procedural ruling the administration wanted in June. But that still left open the underlying question of the order’s legality. After losing the latest round of litigation again in the lower courts, the administration has now returned to the justices, asking them to “confirm the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause.” That clause of the 14th Amendment, which has long been understood to grant automatic citizenship to people born on U.S. soil, says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Again, the administration could have asked for such a ruling months ago, instead of first seeking the procedural ruling it pressed in Trump v. CASA. The administration has not been shy about ringing up the justices when it has felt the need to do so. In any event, we are now closer to the justices finally deciding the matter. The plaintiffs, who’ve been winning in the lower courts, will have a chance to weigh in before the justices consider whether and when to take it up.

The prior SCOTUS ruling was procedural to block nationwide injunctions in most cases. trump was hoping that the procedural ruling from SCOTUS would require each and every court to have to rule on the birthright citizenship issue. However, the plaintiffs were anticipating the SCOTUS narrow procedural ruling and converted most of the cases into class actions. There are now more than a couple courts who have ruled in class actions that trump's birthright citizenship position is void and these cases are nationwide injunctions and so now trump is asking for a ruling on the merits of trump's bizarre reading of the 14th Amendment.

I think that trump's position on the 14th Amendment is very weak and hopefully Roberts will NOT rewrite the 14th Amendment to make trump happy.
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