The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he signed an executive order to deny citizenship to children born in the country to parents who lack legal immigration status. Trump signed the order on his first day in office, prompting immediate legal challenges based on the 14th Amendment, which guarantees automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
A 6–3 majority on the court found that Trump’s executive order was unlawful. With five justices agreeing on the constitutional claims, the decision solidifies that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment protects citizenship for those children, closing the door to the president or Congress taking that right away.
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The U.S. Supreme Court also ruled on June 30 that states can bar men from competing in women’s sporting leagues. The court ruled in a consolidated set of cases out of Idaho and West Virginia that federal Title IX rules permit schools to “provide separate women’s and men’s sports teams defined by biological sex,” meaning schools can prohibit men from playing on women’s teams even if those men believe they are women.
The court rejected arguments from the plaintiffs that Title IX requires schools to let males play in women’s leagues. The court said “safety and competitive fairness” are “important interests” for equal protection concerns, and sex-separated teams are “substantially related” to furthering those interests.
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