President Donald Trump said he will immediately ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its 5-4 decision rejecting his executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rehear its recent birthright citizenship ruling after the justices struck down his executive order seeking to limit automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.
The court ruled last month in a 5-4 decision that those children are U.S. citizens under the 14th Amendment, rejecting Trump’s attempt to deny automatic citizenship in those cases.
Trump announced on Truth Social that he would seek immediate reconsideration.
“I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote. “This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision.”
Supreme Court rehearings are rarely granted. Under the court’s Rule 44, a petition for rehearing generally must be filed within 25 days of judgment. Such petitions are intended for exceptional circumstances, including major legal or factual issues the court may have overlooked.
A rehearing cannot be ordered unless one of the justices who joined the majority supports it.
The White House has indicated that Trump intends to continue pressing the issue despite the court’s ruling. White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson told “National Report” on July 1 that the administration views the case as unfinished.
Jackson said the birthright citizenship fight “is just getting started” and that Trump “isn’t giving up on this any time soon.”
“American citizenship is worth so much more than a cheap plane ticket or a last-minute border crossing,” Jackson said. “The American people can rest assured that President Trump isn’t giving up on this any time soon.”
Jackson said the administration believes the Supreme Court “fundamentally misinterpreted” the 14th Amendment. She argued that the amendment was not intended to automatically grant citizenship to children born to foreign nationals who entered the country illegally or were only temporarily present.
Trump also used his post to raise concerns about advertising tied to birthright citizenship near the U.S.-Mexico border, in Mexico and inside the United States.
“Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with ‘Deliveries starting at $4000,’” Trump wrote. “Likewise, similar signs going up all over our Country.
“Billions of Dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM, with Citizenship going to anyone willing to pay.
“It will be, by far, the number one way of becoming a citizen, and then the entire family will be allowed to follow. Not sustainable.
“NOBODY SAW THIS COMING!!! AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE! In fact, that is a crime, and therefore, the Supreme Court’s ruling is wrong.”
The president’s planned rehearing request keeps the legal and political battle over birthright citizenship alive, though the procedural path is narrow because the court grants very few rehearing petitions and requires support from a justice in the majority.
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