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The Trump administration will (apparently) not ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its June 30 ruling that struck down President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order ending birthright citizenship \u2013 the guarantee of U.S. citizenship to virtually everyone born in this country. Although Trump had indicated earlier this month that he intended to file a petition for rehearing in the case, Trump v. Barbara<\/em>, the deadline for doing so \u2013 July 27 \u2013 has now passed, and no such brief appears on the court\u2019s electronic docket for the case. We will update this story if that changes for any reason.<\/p>\n

Read more Eliminate the summer recess<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump issued the order on Jan. 20, 2025, shortly after his second inauguration. Legal challenges to the order followed immediately, and federal judges around the country agreed with the challengers \u2013 states, immigrants\u2019 rights groups, and individuals \u2013 that the order violated the Constitution. When the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court last year, it asked the justices to weigh in on a different question: whether federal courts have the power to issue \u201cuniversal\u201d or \u201cnationwide\u201d injunctions, orders that bar the government from enforcing a law or policy anywhere in the United States. By a vote of 6-3 on June 27, 2025, the court ruled that they do not.<\/p>\n

The challenges to Trump\u2019s order then continued in the lower courts, and on Dec. 5, 2025, the justices agreed to review a ruling by a federal judge in New Hampshire striking down the order. On the final day before the court\u2019s summer recess, the justices upheld the lower court\u2019s ruling, with a majority determining that Trump\u2019s order was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the for the majority, which was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. He held that Trump\u2019s order is inconsistent with the 14th Amendment\u2019s citizenship clause, which provides that \u201c[a]ll 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with his five colleagues that the order could not stand, but for a different reason. He believed that the order violated a federal law containing language that is nearly identical to that of the citizenship clause.<\/p>\n

Three justices \u2013 Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch \u2013 dissented and would have allowed Trump\u2019s order to go into effect.<\/p>\n

Read more Notable concurring opinions from this term<\/a><\/p>\n

On July 8, Trump indicated in a social media post that he planned to ask the Supreme Court \u201cfor a Rehearing \u2026 IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice,\u201d Trump continued, \u201cwill destroy America if they don\u2019t change their absolutely insane decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under , a petition for rehearing would have been due 25 days after the court\u2019s decision. Because that date fell on a weekend \u2013 Saturday, July 25 \u2013 the due date became the following weekday: Monday, July 27. (As of this morning, no such petition has been electronically docketed.)<\/p>\n

A petition for rehearing would have faced long odds. The court\u2019s rules provide that such a petition will only be granted if it garners votes from \u201ca majority of the Court, at the instance of a Justice who concurred in the judgment or decision.\u201d In this case, that would have meant that Trump\u2019s petition would have needed five votes, at least one of which (and, as a practical matter, two) would have to come from one of the justices who voted to strike down Trump\u2019s order: Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, or Jackson (all of whom joined Roberts\u2019 opinion for the majority) or Kavanaugh (who agreed with the result that the majority reached but not the reasoning).<\/p>\n

History also suggests that Trump\u2019s chances would have been slim. As law professor Stephen Vladeck noted, the Supreme Court has not agreed to reconsider its ruling in an argued case since 1965, when it modified its judgment \u201cto permit further proceedings in the lower courts on issues the Court hadn\u2019t resolved.\u201d It has been even longer than that \u2013 going to back to 1956 \u2013 since the court granted rehearing on the merits.<\/p>\n

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