President Donald Trump said the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship is “too bad for our country” and called on Congress to end the practice.
“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!”
He urged Congress to “start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship.”
Birthright citizenship is the argument that, under the 14th Amendment, anyone born in the United States—even a child of illegal aliens—is automatically a U.S. citizen. It is Supreme Court precedent that dates back to 1898.
The case involves Trump’s January 2025 executive order instructing federal agencies not to recognize citizenship for children born in the United States without at least one parent who is an American citizen.
The court on Tuesday ruled against Trump on birthright citizenship, maintaining the status quo.
The majority held that children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote for the majority, joined by Trump-appointed Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, as well as the trio of Democrat appointees, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Trump closely followed the case, and he even attended April 1 oral arguments at the Supreme Court in person. After the arguments concluded, Trump wrote in a social media post, “We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!”
Fred Lucas contributed to this report.
