Can Trump Change Who Gets Citizenship in America?

On his first day in office, 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order to change who gets citizenship in the United States.

But Executive Orders are not LAW, and his document was immediately challenged in courts across the country. Three Federal Courts blocked Trump's attack on the 14th Amendment and Birthright Citizenship.

Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop lower courts from blocking his Executive Orders. Arguing that one or two Federal Courts do not have the power to stop the entire country from following his orders.

The Supreme Court heard historic arguments on Thursday, as the Trump administration seeks to challenge the constitutional provision that guarantees automatic citizenship to all babies born in the United States.

And yet, as I explained above, the arguments focused primarily on a different question entirely—a legal question regarding nationwide injunctions that could make it much more difficult and time-consuming to bring challenges to all of Trump's legal policies, not just this one.

If this is a test case, it is a doozy. Birthright Citizenship is guaranteed in the 14th Amendment.