With Six votes in favor and three againstand with a decision written by the judge Amy Coney Barrettthe court admitted the executive’s request to reduce the scope of three precautionary measures dictated by federal judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington. These failures had stopped the application of a presidential directive questioned by their legality.
The measure represents a Key victory for US Presidentwhich could temporarily implement changes in the way of granting US citizenship.
On your network Social truthTrump celebrated the decision: “Giant Victoria. Even the deception of citizenship by birth right has been, indirectly, hard. “In a later conference, the former president thanked the six judges who voted in favor and announced that other immigration policies that were also blocked.
“The country has to be very proud of the Supreme Court today”said the Republican, highlighting the Court’s decision again.
Limited scope and future debates
The opinion clarifies that the order will not enter into force even within 30 daystime during which you can remain appealed. The Court avoided ruling on the Constitutionality In the background of the executive order that seeks to end citizens by birth for children of undocumented immigrants or temporary residents, leaving that discussion open for another time.
The order, signed the January 20he instructed federal agencies to deny citizens to children born in US territory if none of their parents were legal citizen or resident permanent.
The administration asked the Court that will limit the scope of judicial measures Only to the groups that had submitted demands: pregnant women, migrant defense organizations and certain states. The detractors argued that such action violated the Constitutionthe judicial precedents and the history of the country.
Various district courts had spoken against the presidential decree, declaring him invalid. The case climbed to become one of the central points on the agenda of Trump’s second mandate.
During the case analysis, the former president reiterated that The 14th amendment was “misunderstood” and that its original purpose was related to the slaverynot with the granting of citizenship by birth. “It is not about tourists arriving and touching some sand and suddenly there are citizenship,” he said.
However, judges and legal experts recalled that said amendment not only recognized rights to ex -sclaves, but also to Every person born in American territoryregardless of its origin.
Limit to national precautionary
The decision also reduced the use of national precautionary measuresan increasingly used judicial tool since Trump’s second term began. Between him January 20 and April 29they were broadcast 25 failures of this type, according to the Congress Research Servicein front of the 28 dictated throughout the administration of Joe Biden and the 86 of Trump’s first mandate.
The attorney general Pam Bondi celebrated the failure in X (extwitter): “The Supreme Court ordered the district courts to stop the endless flood of precautionary measures nationally against the president. “said the Department of Justice It will continue to defend the migratory policies of the government.
At the conference with Trump, Bondi also criticized the “Judicial commandments without law” And he said: “We will no longer have dishonest judges that annul the president’s policies throughout the country.”
Hard opposition criticisms
From the CongressDemocratic legislators repudiated the resolution of the Court. The representative Greg CasarPresident of Progressive Caucushe warned: “It is a fundamental idea: when you are born in the United States, you are American. That is what Trump tries to snatch.”
The organization Democracy forwardthrough its president Skye Perrymanhe described the decision as “disappointing” and promised to continue appealing in different jurisdictions: “Several paths remain for people to obtain relief from courts.”
In the legal debate, the Defenders of citizenship by birth They recalled the text of the amendment: “All people born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States.” For many, it is a “cornerstone” of the American ideal.
A amicus curiae presented by migratory groups warned that “citizenship by birth right is the nucleus of our nation’s founding precept that all people born in our soil are created the same, regardless of their ancestry.”
The Court also failed over Obamacare
In parallel, the court issued another relevant ruling: by Six votes against threesupported a central component of the Asequible assistance lawknown as Obamacarewhich forces insurers to cover preventive services without additional costs for patients.
This decision, written by the judge Brett Kavanaughit was the quarter in 13 years in which the Court sustained the constitutionality of the norm promoted by Barack Obama in 2010. The case focused on the role of Preventive Services Working Groupwhich establishes what services should be covered.
Millions of Americans depend on these benefits, which include oncological studies, preventive medication and treatments against the HIVamong others.
Source: Ambito
