Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship [View all]

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.

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