Published July 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM ET · Updated July 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM ET
Speaker Johnson condemns the federal court ruling on birthright citizenship
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Speaker Mike Johnson criticized a court decision blocking restrictions on birthright citizenship. President Trump has called on the Supreme Court to reconsider the ruling, describing it as an flawed decision.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
United States v. Wong Kim Ark held that a child born on U.S. soil to noncitizen parents permanently domiciled here is a citizen at birth. Trump v. Barbara reaffirmed and extended that rule and struck down Executive Order 14160, holding that children born here to unlawfully or only temporarily present parents are citizens under the Citizenship Clause. The restriction Speaker Johnson defends is already invalid under binding precedent.
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.
Precedent facts from the PW Law Library — primary-source verified & independently audited
