Council of State advises against passage of Dual Citizenship Amendment Bill

Rep Grothman seeks vote to restrict birthright citizenship as Trump weighs appeal

Pushing back against the recent Supreme Court ruling that protected birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, House Republicans are renewing a legislative push to restrict birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants in order to force the issue back before the high court. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., a House subcommittee chairman long influential on immigration []...Click to read more

Congress Can Still Ban Birthright Citizenship. Here's How.

Congress Can Still Ban Birthright Citizenship. Here's How.

House Republican introduces Birthright Citizenship Clarification Act to codify Trump executive order

Freshman House Rep. John McGuire (R-Va.) on Thursday introduced the Birthright Citizenship Clarification Act to codify President Trump’s executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship by striking down the jus soli or “right of the soil” legal principle that grants citizenship to anyone born within a nation's territory. McGuire’s bill comes days after the Supreme Court ruled that...

Virginia Rep. McGuire Moves To Tighten Citizenship Rules With New Birthright Bill

Representative John McGuire, R-Va., introduced new legislation on Thursday aimed at altering how birthright citizenship is applied in the United States. The bill, titled the Birthright Citizenship Clarification Act, seeks to turn the core policy of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship into federal statute. According to the bill’s supporters, the legislation is [] Virginia Rep. McGuire Moves To Tighten Citizenship Rules With New Birthright Bill

Noncitizen accused of falsely claiming US citizenship before casting federal ballots

A lawful permanent resident allegedly made false statements about her U.S. citizenship to register to vote and cast ballots in two elections.

Domicile Isn't a Real Argument For Citizenship Says Wydra

A divided US Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s planned restrictions and invalidating a central plank of his immigration agenda. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented. National citizenship was not an independent concept but simply derivative of state citizenship. “Every citizen of a state,” it was often said, was “ipso facto a citizen of the United States.” In these contexts, too, national citizenship required domicile because state citizenship required domicile. Justice Thomas wrote. Elizabeth Wydra, President of the Constitutional Accountability Center joined Balance of Power to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)

Birthright Citizenship and the Supreme Court

Automatic citizenship for the children of foreign nationals on US soil will only further politicize immigration and increase calls for more limits on migrants in the US.

Birthright Citizenship Lives: Only Three Justices Side With Intended Meaning

Only three Supreme Court judges believe American citizenship should not be automatically granted to people just for being born here. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld by a vote of 6-3 birthright citizenship, the version of the 14th Amendment that makes anyone who is born here, with diplomatic exceptions, an American citizen. This includes the ... The post Birthright Citizenship Lives: Only Three Justices Side With Intended Meaning appeared first on The New American.

Birthright Citizenship After <i>Barbara</i>

Congress is not powerless to stop the worst aspects of birthright citizenship.

Supreme Court rulings live: Trump turns to Congress to end birthright citizenship after SCOTUS strikes down executive order

Justices affirmed that anyone born in the US is a citizen, per the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment

Council of State warns against repealing asylum law

A bill to scrap the law that distributes asylum seekers more evenly across the country’s councils should not go ahead,...

Birthright Tourism Bills Surge After SCOTUS Ruling

After the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s motion to restrict birthright citizenship on Tuesday, both chambers of Congress are overseeing legislation that would stop foreign travelers from coming to the United States to give birth to child granted American citizen status. In the upper chamber, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., called on his colleagues...

Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision reignites Rand Paul’s push for constitutional amendment

Some Republican lawmakers are reigniting a push to amend the Constitution to end birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to limit the right under the 14th Amendment. The high court ruled 6-3 to strike down Trump’s order that would have ended citizenship for children born to parents []

Can you vote in NC if you’ve never lived here? GOP bill would bar ‘never-resident’ voters

A Republican-backed bill moving through the North Carolina General Assembly would bar so-called “never-resident” U.S. citizens from voting in state and local elections and add new identification requirements for overseas absentee voters, as lawmakers debate election law changes.

Birthright Citizenship Ruling Akin to Dred Scott, Roe v. Wade

Birthright Citizenship Ruling Akin to Dred Scott, Roe v. Wade

RiftTV CEO Elijah Schaffer rips SC ruling on birthright citizenship, targets H-1B children, ‘Little Pooja, little Panji’

Elijah Schaffer challenges the meaning of American identity, arguing that citizenship should extend beyond birth in the U.S.

The alarming split in the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling

The ruling was a revealing moment for the future of the court

Foreign-Born Judge Blocks Citizenship Test Saying It Would ‘Purge’ Voters

A foreign-born federal judge in D.C. ruled Monday that Americans are not allowed to check the citizenship of prospective voters because doing so might “purge voter rolls.” D.C. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, blocked the Trump administration from using an updated database called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements []

BREAKING: SCOTUS Shares Ruling on Birthright Citizenship

BREAKING: SCOTUS Shares Ruling on Birthright Citizenship

How the birthright citizenship decision impacts Trump's immigration agenda

To discuss the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, Amna Nawaz spoke with Amanda Frost. She is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and the author of You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers.

‘Let’s get it done’: Rand Paul outlines the ultimate fix for Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship activism * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Source link Rand Paul Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has explained his one absolute fix for the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship activism. That opinion written by John Roberts claims that the

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Supreme Court strikes down Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship

The 14th Amendment says that all persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

'Stress and uncertainty': Foreigners in Norway give verdict on tightening of citizenship rules

A recent proposal from the Norwegian government to change citizenship rules has caused concern among international residents. Here's the verdict from our readers.

Parliament must complete the Equal Citizenship journey begun in 1996

The Council of State has advised against the bipartisan Constitution Amendment Bill, 2025, which seeks to remove the remaining constitutional restrictions on dual citizens holding certain public offices notwithstanding the President's repeated support for the reform. The affected offices include Member of Parliament, the Executive (Ministers, Secretary to the Cabinet, Ambassadors), members of constitutional commissions, founding members, executives and leaders of political parties, and the heads of key security services.

Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Decision - READ IN FULL

Read the ruling in full here.

Dual citizens for public office … Council of State advises against passage of proposed bill, 2025

The Council of State has advised against the passage of the proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2025, Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has announced. The private member’s bill, sponsored by the Member of Parliament for Akim Swedru, Kennedy Osei Nyarko, seeks to remove constitutional restrictions that prevented dual citizens from occupying certain public offices. The post Dual citizens for public office Council of State advises against passage of proposed bill, 2025 appeared first on Ghanaian Times.

Why the birthright citizenship ruling could not have gone differently

CNN’s @thelauracoates breaks down the 14th Amendment, the key legal precedents behind the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold birthright citizenship, and looks at what’s next as the debate shifts from the courts to Congress.

Big Wins, Bigger Losses: Trump's Dramatic Day At The Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court's rulings on birthright citizenship, immigration, and presidential power matter for Indian students, professionals and diaspora families in the US, bringing relief on citizenship...

U.S. Supreme Court rules against Trump executive order to limit birthright citizenship

U.S. Supreme Court rules against Trump executive order to limit birthright citizenship

Major setback for Trump as US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and []

Supreme Court rejects Trump's birthright citizenship changes

The Supreme Court struck down limits on birthright citizenship, a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy. Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/30/supreme-court-decisions-rulings-birthright-citizenship--live/90740949007/ Sign up for our newsletter for the day's top stories, from sports to movies to politics to world events: https://profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/

Poll: Americans split on whether being U.S.-born is important for being ‘truly American’

The Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision on birthright citizenship comes as Americans are split on the question of whether being born in the U.S. is central to American identity, with stark partisan divides on the issue, according to the recent NBC News poll.

Vice President JD Vance Says There's a Silver Lining to the Birthright Citizenship Ruling

Vice President JD Vance Says There's a Silver Lining to the Birthright Citizenship Ruling

Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Attempt to Rewrite the Fourteenth Amendment

Joshua Scheer Birthright Citizenship Survives—for Now. The Project to Redefine Who Belongs Continues. In a 5–4 decision issued on June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees U.S. citizenship to nearly all children born on American soil, regardless of whether their parents are in the country legally or only temporarily. The []

When proof still fails citizenship test

When proof still fails citizenship test