Trump live updates: President vows to keep fighting against birthright citizenship as he readies for America 250 events
President Donald Trump is calling on Congress to enact legislation that would end birthright citizenship, continuing the fight against the enshrined right after the Supreme Court ruled against him Tuesday.
“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. No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
In one of the most anticipated rulings of the term, the justices struck down the president’s executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants or people in the U.S. temporarily.
Trump’s pushback comes ahead of the July 4 weekend, when he is expected to headline a fireworks show in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary with a speech in the nation’s capital.
Over the last few months, critics have accused Trump of taking over the semiquincentennial events to celebrate himself or his administration’s policies.
Looking forward, the president on Tuesday announced that the Republican Party will hold its first-ever midterm convention ahead of this fall’s congressional elections.
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“It will be fantastic!” President Trump boasted on Truth Social on Tuesday. “It has never been done before, and will be a truly Historic Event. We are going to celebrate the GREAT AMERICAN COMEBACK, and the incredible successes of the American People who transformed our Country through the America First Agenda — NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY, STRONGER BORDERS, SAFEST EVER COMMUNITIES, LOWER COSTS AND REAL AFFORDABILITY, MORE JOBS, AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE, AND SO MUCH MORE!”
“We will also have lots of Great Entertainment — It will be a RALLY like none other!” he added.
If it’s anything like his ongoing Great American State Fair in Washington, the rally portion of the event may fall flat.
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The president earned nearly $1.2 billion dollars, according to financial disclosures analyzed by The Washington Post.
The crypto industry was a major donor to the 2024 Trump campaign, and since taking office, the president has rolled back his predecessor’s more adversarial stance towards digital currencies.
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Trump offers snarkiest response ever to birthright citizenship loss: ‘I would like to congratulate President Xi’
Donald Trump has spent years railing at the Constitution’s principle of birthright citizenship and has sought to unilaterally redefine who gets to be an American.
But after the Supreme Court struck down his unconstitutional executive order to block automatic citizenship to the children of certain immigrant parents, the president seemed to believe he still has a shot in Congress — and then he thanked China’s president.
“I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday.
Trump and administration officials have repeatedly claimed that thousands of pregnant women travel to the U.S. within the final days of their pregnancy every year to ensure their newborn child gets American citizenship, including potentially tens of thousands of Chinese nationals. There is little proof that the claim is true.
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Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claims the landmark ruling affirming citizenship for all children born on U.S. soil “devalues” American citizenship.
In a separate dissent from the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito suggested that the majority’s opinion will “degrade” the concept of American citizenship by making the children of “birth tourists” citizens.
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A survivor of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting cautioned the Supreme Court that loosening state bans on assault-style rifles could lead to more gun deaths.
“Far too many school shootings, including the tragedy that took place at Sandy Hook, are made more deadly by the easy availability of assault weapons,” Abbey Clements said Tuesday.
Clements’ comment comes after the Supreme Court said it would take up two cases challenging state laws that ban assault-style semiautomatic weapons.
“The simple fact is that we had fewer mass shootings and mass shootings were less deadly when we had a federal assault weapons ban in place. With the Supreme Court opening the door to striking down more state bans, we know what the result will be – more mass shootings and more gun deaths.”
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The court’s ruling Tuesday does not prohibit transgender women and girls from participating on sports teams, rather, it gives states the OK to enact bans.
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The ruling was a loss for Trump, who has railed against mail-in ballot voting.
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Even though the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, the National Immigration Project said the relief feels “tempered and temporary” as the court allows the Trump administration to implement other restrictive policies.
"Since the Supreme Court took this case, we have been holding our breath – today, we exhale, but our relief feels tempered and temporary,” Sirine Shebaya, the executive director of the National Immigration Project, said.
“This executive order was never really about citizenship policy. It was about power—about testing whether a president can simply declare a constitutional provision means something other than what it says, and dare the courts to stop him. Today they did. But this should have been the easiest case the Court heard all year. The fact that this was a fight at all should trouble us as much as the outcome relieves us.’
Shebaya pointed to dissents from four justices who argued they should have allowed President Donald Trump to restrict birthright citizenship via an executive order. She also pointed to other decisions this week that allowed the administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status from Haitians and Syrians as well as a decision that allows the administration to implement a turn-back policy at the US border.
“We are watching this country move, decision by decision, toward becoming an authoritarian, white supremacist autocracy. Today’s decision lets us hold on to increasingly slippery hope that we are not there yet.”
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Riley Gaines, a conservative activist who became outspoken against transgender women and girls competing in sports, called the Supreme Court’s decision a “a victory.”
Gaines made headlines in 2022 when she tied with Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, for fifth place in their collegiate swimming competition. She became an advocate for banning transgender women and girls from competing on women’s and girls’ sports teams, leading the “Save Women’s Sports” movement.
“The law of the land now reflects reality and common sense,” Gaines wrote on X. “Insane that this requires celebrating, but it’s a victory nonetheless.”
Trump trolls birthright citizenship decision by congratulating China
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling, the president congratulated the Chinese President Xi Jinping and China on its “WIN” – trolling the court’s decision.
“I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday.
