A federal judge’s order blocking former President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship has taken effect. U.S.

Is America on the verge of rewriting who’s in? That’s the echo sounding through courtrooms and neighborhoods in the wake of President Trump’s Executive Order 14160, which, as of January 2025, seeks to flip on its head a pillar of American identity: birthright citizenship.

Trump would like us to believe that he is defending the nation’s heritage, but his attempts to weaponize citizenship against critics tell a different story. This is not about ancestry; it’s about allegiance — to him.

The case stems from President Donald Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship, which has been frozen by multiple lower courts. The Supreme Court is not likely to rule on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship itself. It will instead focus on federal judges' use of nationwide injunctions, which have stunted key aspects of Trump's agenda.

Lately, Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis has become a go-to source on questions about President Donald Trump’s frenzied efforts to reshape the federal government—the main question usually being,

Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order

Comedian and actor Rosie O’Donnell has responded to President Donald Trump 's threat to have her U.S. citizenship revoked, the latest move in a yearslong back-and-forth between the two New York-born former TV stars.

As a result of today’s decision, even if the birthright citizenship revocation policy is ultimately struck down, it will have functioned in the meantime—unimpeded, unremedied, and untouchable ...

It turns out that the President's three eldest children, Don Jr, 47, Ivanka, 43, and Eric, 41, were born to a non-US citizen - his first wife, Ivana Trump, who only held Czech citizenship at the time of their respective births. Such is similarly this case with Trump's youngest offspring, his 19-year-old son Barron.