{"id":499,"date":"2026-08-11T23:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:09:16","slug":"challenge-brought-to-trumps-new-birthright-citizenship-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Challenge brought to Trump\u2019s new birthright citizenship order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Just five days after President Donald Trump signed a new executive order that seeks to narrow the availability of birthright citizenship \u2013 the current guarantee of automatic citizenship to almost all babies born in the United States \u2013 lawyers for the plaintiffs who successfully challenged Trump\u2019s earlier order restricting birthright citizenship returned to federal court in New Hampshire. In a motion filed on Tuesday morning, lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups urged U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante to clarify that the new order goes beyond the limited exception \u2013 for foreign diplomats \u2013 to birthright citizenship that the Supreme Court reaffirmed in its June 30 decision in <em>Trump v. Barbara<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=497\">A reflection on John Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s first attempt to end birthright citizenship came at the beginning of his second term, when he signed an executive order\u00a0that prohibited children whose parents were either undocumented immigrants or only in the United States temporarily from gaining automatic U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>On the last day before the court\u2019s summer recess, a majority of the court ruled that Trump\u2019s 2025 order violated the Constitution. In his opinion for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the 14th Amendment\u2019s citizenship clause, which grants citizenship to anyone \u201cborn \u2026 in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,\u201d sweeps broadly, subject only to a few \u201cnarrow exceptions\u201d for \u201cthe children of foreign ministers and members of\u201d some \u201c19th-century Indian tribes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the court\u2019s decision, Trump initially indicated that he planned to ask the justices to reconsider their decision, but the deadline to do so passed in late July, and the Supreme Court has since issued  in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, on Aug. 6, Trump signed a new executive order, bearing the title \u201cContinuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.\u201d At the same time, he also signed a second order, titled \u201cEnding Birth Tourism,\u201d that targets what the Trump administration has repeatedly characterized as a problem: travel by pregnant women to the United States to give birth so that their children will be U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The new birthright citizenship order would apply to several different groups. This includes not only the children of ambassadors \u2013 that is, \u201cforeign ministers\u201d \u2013 but the children of a variety of other foreign citizens in the U.S., including other employees at a foreign embassy, employees of a foreign government who are in the United States in their official capacity, and employees of international organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank. Trump\u2019s new order would also exclude from birthright citizenship any child whose parent was designated as an \u201calien enemy\u201d under several federal laws.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=496\">The court should hold oral argument outside of the capital<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Trump\u2019s order would apply to (among others) the children of parents who \u201cengage[d] in a commercial transaction to ensure that the person\u2019s mother is present in the United States, or a territory of the United States, to give birth\u201d and to children born in a U.S. territory or U.S. territorial waters \u201cwhere citizenship is not conferred by Federal statute.\u201d Under federal law, babies born in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands are currently entitled to U.S. citizenship (while those born in American Samoa are not), although a\u00a0bill\u00a0recently introduced in Congress would end birthright citizenship in those territories beginning on Jan. 1, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The challengers in <em>Trump v. Barbara<\/em> on Tuesday asked Laplante to enjoin this order. In that decision, they wrote, the Supreme Court rebuffed the Trump administration\u2019s attempt to carve out new exceptions \u2013 for the children of undocumented immigrants or parents who are only in the United States temporarily \u2013 from the 14th Amendment\u2019s citizenship clause. In so doing, the challengers stressed, the Supreme Court \u201creaffirmed \u2026 that \u2018the Citizenship Clause \u2026 granted citizenship to nearly all children born in the United States,\u2019 save only \u2018the \u201cchildren of ambassadors\u201d and other representatives of foreign sovereigns\u2019 along with Native American Tribal members.\u201d \u201cThat,\u201d the challengers concluded, \u201cshould have been the end of this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The challengers also pushed back against any possible suggestion that Trump\u2019s Aug. 6 order should stand because it includes some groups of people \u2013 such as the children of ambassadors \u2013 \u201cfor whom the President can legally deny citizenship.\u201d First, they said, as the Supreme Court established, the president cannot create exceptions to the citizenship clause. And the exceptions outlined in the Aug. 6 order apply much more broadly than the narrow exception to the citizenship clause for ambassadors \u2013 to, for example, the children of other foreign nationals employed at embassies in the United States, who do not have the same kind of full diplomatic immunity as ambassadors, and to the children of individuals designated as \u201calien enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The challengers contended that \u201c[i]f the President issues 100 orders seeking to create new exceptions to the sacred guarantee of the Citizenship Clause, all 100 will be equally illegal. And nothing requires this Court to countenance the continued assault on this foundational constitutional principle or issue an endless string of\u201d orders preventing such executive orders from going into effect.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=495\">Court announces cases it will hear in November, including religious discrimination dispute<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just five days after President Donald Trump signed a new executive order that seeks to narrow the availability of birthright citizenship \u2013 the current guarantee of automatic citizenship to almost all babies born in the United States \u2013 lawyers for the plaintiffs who successfully challenged Trump\u2019s earlier order restricting birthright citizenship returned to federal court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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