The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship Monday, striking down President Donald Trump's executive order that sought to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States to parents without legal status.
The ruling preserves a right guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment and delivers a significant legal defeat to the administration's immigration agenda.
In the same end-of-term session, the Court handed down two additional major rulings. Justices allowed individual states to prohibit transgender athletes from competing in female sports categories, siding with states that had enacted such bans.
On campaign finance, the Court struck down existing federal restrictions on coordinated spending between political parties and their candidates, a decision that opens the door to substantially larger financial flows in future federal elections.
The birthright ruling drew immediate reaction from immigration advocates and Republican lawmakers alike, with the administration offering no immediate signal on whether it would pursue legislative alternatives.
All three decisions were handed down in the final days of the Court's current term. The justices are next scheduled to return for oral arguments when the new term opens in October.