{"id":4015,"date":"2026-07-01T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:05:08","slug":"the-divided-supreme-courts-birthright-citizenship-decision-exposes-sharp-rifts-among-justices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"The divided Supreme Court\u2019s birthright citizenship decision exposes sharp rifts among justices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s divided ruling that children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment \u2014 even if their parents are in the country unlawfully or only temporarily \u2014 exposed deep fissures in the justices\u2019 views on the issue and toward each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The court\u2019s two Black justices notably had very different views on U.S. citizenship in the context of Reconstruction after the Civil War.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s decision rejects an order President Donald Trump issued at the start of his second term, declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The majority, composed of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, determined that birth on U.S. soil plus being subject to U.S. law is enough for citizenship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several dissenters, including Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, say birth alone is not enough \u2014 the child\u2019s parents must have a deeper political allegiance or relationship to the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

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