Published August 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM ET · Updated August 12, 2026 at 12:57 AM ET
New Hampshire federal court certifies class of pregnant ISIS-linked women seeking citizenship for children
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A New Hampshire federal court has certified a class of pregnant women with links to ISIS who are seeking citizenship for their children. The ruling grants class action status to the group pursuing the citizenship claims.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
United States v. Wong Kim Ark held that a child born on U.S. soil to non-citizen parents domiciled here is a citizen at birth, because subject to the jurisdiction means amenable to U.S. law. Trump v. Barbara reaffirmed and extended that rule to children of parents unlawfully or only temporarily present. The mothers' ISIS ties do not defeat the children's citizenship; what governs is place of birth and amenability to U.S. law.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
Vote: 6-2 (Justice McKenna took no part) · Opinion: Justice Horace Gray
A child born in the United States to parents of Chinese descent who, at the time of his birth, were subjects of the Emperor of China but had a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, were carrying on business here, and were not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity of the Chinese government, becomes at birth a citizen of the United States under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Trump v. Barbara 609 U.S. ___ (2026) (slip opinion; U.S. Reports page not yet assigned)
Vote: 6-3 on invalidity of EO 14160; 5-4 on the Fourteenth Amendment ground · Opinion: Chief Justice John Roberts
Children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully present or lawfully but temporarily present are born 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Citizenship Clause. Executive Order 14160 is invalid. Roberts's opinion treated 'jurisdiction' as satisfied by amenability to U.S. law, reaffirmed Wong Kim Ark as declaratory of the common-law rule inherited from Calvin's Case, and grounded the Clause in the repudiation of Dred Scott.
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