WASHINGTON, Jul 9 (Alliance News): US President Donald Trump has announced that his legal team will immediately ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its recent ruling that rejected his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for certain children born in the United States.
According to media reports, Trump described the court’s decision as a “miscarriage of justice” and said he would pursue a rare request for the country’s highest court to rehear the case.
The case challenged an executive order signed by Trump on his first day back in office that sought to deny automatic US citizenship to children born in the country to undocumented immigrants or parents staying temporarily in the United States.
In its 6-3 ruling last month, the Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born on US soil and subject to the country’s jurisdiction. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, said the constitutional protection applies to children of undocumented immigrants as well as those born to parents on temporary visas.
Trump argued that the decision could encourage illegal immigration and claimed that advertisements promoting birthright citizenship services were appearing near the US-Mexico border.
Under Supreme Court rules, requests for a rehearing must generally be filed within 25 days of the ruling and are granted only in exceptional circumstances. Such requests are extremely rare, and the court has not agreed to rehear a decided case in decades.
If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case again, it would mark an extraordinary and highly unusual legal development.
