Trump Seeks Supreme Court Rehearing After 6-3 Birthright Citizenship Ruling

President Donald Trump said he will ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling upholding birthright citizenship, calling it “absolutely insane” and saying he’ll seek a “Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY.”

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision struck down Trump’s executive order that sought to end automatic birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing that children born on U.S. soil “to parents unlawfully or temporarily present” are “citizens at birth” under the 14th Amendment.

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Trump’s push followed his Truth Social post describing “Signs and Billboards” advertising “BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP” with “Deliveries starting at $4000,” and he argued “Billions of Dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM, with Citizenship going to anyone willing to pay.”

Under federal law, any petition for a rehearing must be filed within 25 days after a decision is made, and the petition “shall state its grounds briefly and distinctly,” according to The Independent and the Reuters-cited federal-law language it included.

The Washington Post reported that Trump is unlikely to get the justices to take up the case again because the high court “rarely grants rehearings,” noting that the last time it agreed to do so was in 1965.

CNN quoted law professor Daniel Epps saying, “The court essentially never grants those motions,” and added that the court would typically grant reconsideration only when a significant development comes to light.

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CNN also described the court’s June 30 action as a 6-3 vote to invalidate Trump’s effort to end automatic birthright citizenship through executive order, with a five-justice majority concluding the order violated the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.

In the same CNN account, Trump’s lawyers had already filed for a rehearing of the court’s decision to deny an appeal over a $5 million verdict finding that he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, and the article said the odds of success in the birthright case are “highly unlikely.”

Beyond the immediate request, the sources frame the dispute as part of a broader effort to reshape immigration policy, with Al Jazeera saying Trump signed an executive order seeking to bar those born in the U.S. to parents on temporary legal statuses or without documentation from automatically receiving U.S. citizenship.

Al Jazeera also reported that the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling represented a “major blow” to Trump’s efforts and that rights groups hailed the decision, including American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer Cecillia Wang saying the decision “reaffirms a fundamental American promise – if you are born here, you are a citizen.”

The Hill reported that losing parties can ask the high court to rehear cases, but that the justices “rarely grant the request,” and it cited Steve Vladeck saying the high court has not agreed to any rehearing of a ruling in an argued case since 1965.

Al Jazeera further warned that a Migration Policy Institute-Penn State study released in May estimated an “estimated 255,000 infants a year would be born in the US without citizenship under the order,” increasing the undocumented population by “2.7 million by 2045.”