BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship EO

[In It to Win It]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship executive order.

The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T19:11:35.532Z

BREAKING: Supreme Court takes up birthright citizenship appeal, setting up a showdown over one of President Trump’s most controversial policies
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— Kelsey Reichmann (@kelseyreichmann.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T18:54:45.703Z

Supreme Court gives Trump a showdown on birthright citizenship

After greenlighting its enforcement, the Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether Trump’s policy limiting birthright citizenship is constitutional.
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— Kelsey Reichmann (@kelseyreichmann.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T19:01:06.014Z

#SCOTUS adds 4 cases to its docket, including one (but not both) of the birthright citizenship cases.

As for why only one, this is the case that cleanly presents the merits (where Court’s likely to rule against Trump); the other case would’ve required the justices to decide if states had standing.

— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T18:58:28.774Z

I understand, as well as anyone, why folks are cynical about #SCOTUS. But even from the conservative justices' perspective, the birthright citizenship case is easy. And the Justice Department knows it, too; as I wrote in September, its bevavior in these cases has just been going through the motions:

— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T19:19:07.282Z

[Attilatheblond]

1. This is the final exam for the Roberts Court. Are we a nation of laws or tyrants?

[lostincalifornia]

2. They shouldn't even hear this case. The fact that they choose to hear it indicates that they are willing to go against

what the Constitution says about birthright citizenship.

[leftstreet]

5. +1

[Bluetus]

3. The 2nd Amendment is just as clear as birthright, but we got Heller

"Natural born" is as clear as "well-regulated militia". But this court will do anything it wants. Don't try to predict based on reason.

[spanone]

4. Kiss Birthright Citizenship goodbye.

I have zero faith in robert's court.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. 7-2 to uphold birthright citizenship.. This will go the same way Moore V Harper went

7-2 to uphold birthright citizenship.. This will go the same way Moore V Harper went, which everyone was dooming about:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_v._Harper


The two dissenters will be Thomas and Alito.



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There is perhaps no single issue, from the beginning of this administration, on which President Trump has been more wrong than his attempt to narrow birthright citizenship by executive order,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown University Law Center.


“Whether because it violates the relevant statutes; the Fourteenth Amendment itself; or the Supreme Court’s authoritative 1898 interpretation of that constitutional provision, the bottom line is the same,” he added. “And although the Court sided with Trump earlier this summer when he asked it to narrow injunctions against the policy, now that it’s back on the merits, there’s every reason to believe that even this Court will rule against him; the real question is likely to be on which of the multiple possible grounds.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-birthright

[Wanderlust988]

7. So if they allow Trump's EO to stand, what happens when the next Dem president overturns that EO? lol

We're going to have a nation where some people are citizens depending on who's president?

That is why they can't support this. There is no law behind it. It's just an EO.