TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 2, 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 1 in a case testing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine birthright citizenship under the Constitution, Bloomberg Law reports. The order challenged the long-standing interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, which granted citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil. The order directed federal agencies not to recognize the citizenship of children born to mothers not legally in the country or here temporarily, and whose fathers were not citizens or lawful permanent residents at the time of the birth. The court will take up a U.S. Justice Department appeal of a lower court ruling that blocked the policy saying it violated the Constitution's 14th Amendment as well as federal law.