Supreme Court must end birthright citizenship
The 14th Amendment was never intended to include children of illegal immigrants
COMMENTARY
By Editorial Board - The Washington Times - Thursday, June 25, 2026
OPINION:
Can any serious legal scholar, much less a Supreme Court justice, argue with a straight face that the authors of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution intended for almost anyone born on U.S. soil to automatically enjoy American citizenship, regardless of the circumstances of their birth here?
That is at issue in a fraught case involving so-called birthright citizenship pending before the Supreme Court. The justices are expected to rule on the matter in Trump v. Barbara within days, deciding what is arguably the most consequential case of the court’s 2025-2026 term.
When the 14th Amendment was ratified in July 1868, it was clearly intended to grant citizenship to emancipated Black people and their children.
The amendment was made necessary a decade earlier by one of the most egregious Supreme Court decisions in American history, 1857’s Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and that they could not, as a consequence, expect any protection from the federal government — or the courts.
The relevant portion of the 14th Amendment reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The authors of the 14th Amendment could not have foreseen — much less sanctioned — today’s scale of illegal immigration. Under the Biden administration, the southern border was effectively thrown wide open, allowing millions of noncitizens into the country.
If the Supreme Court rules against President Trump in his administration’s bid to curb birthright citizenship — as it stands now, with hardly any restrictions — all children born to those millions of illegal immigrants will automatically be citizens.
That is akin to agreeing to allow shoplifters to legally keep whatever merchandise they can smuggle out of a store’s doors.
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