US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump

On Truth Social, Trump said that the court's decision was "too bad" and vowed to continue to fight to end birthright citizenship through legislation. "No long and unwieldy constitutional amendment is necessary," he said. "Congress should today start work on ending expensive, and unfair to our country, birthright citizenship." The US has granted citizenship to everyone born in the country since 1868, with the right enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, and bolstered by later US Supreme Court rulings. "Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights - to freely participate in our political community," Justice Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. "The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land'," he wrote. "We keep that promise today," the chief justice said. Three of the court's nine justices dissented from the decision: Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito. Justice Thomas, for his part, argued that the 14th amendment was being "repurposed for political projects" and that the freed slaves it was originally intended for "were Americans" with no allegiance to other countries. …