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June 30, 2026

Heritage Foundation Calls for Constitutional Amendment Following Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling

  • The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that all children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment, rejecting a Trump-era executive order that would have denied citizenship to children of undocumented parents, affecting over 250,000 children annually.
  • Chief Justice John Roberts criticized the Trump administration's interpretation of allegiance, stating there is 'scant evidence' for their revisionist view, while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson rebuked Justice Clarence Thomas's reading of the Citizenship Clause as race-conscious.
  • In response to the ruling, Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation called it a 'tremendous betrayal' and urged for a constitutional amendment, though his former chief of staff noted the difficulty of ratifying such amendments.

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