Dear MoveOn member,
The Supreme Court just rejected Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, reaffirming what has been settled constitutional law for more than 150 years: If you are born in the United States, you are a citizen.1
This is a victory for millions of families and for the simple principle that no president can unilaterally decide who gets to be an American.
But, Cassandra, this case should never have made it to the Supreme Court in the first place. Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional from the moment he signed it. Lower courts repeatedly blocked Trump’s order because the 14th Amendment is clear and does not give presidents the power to rewrite citizenship rights. Yet the Trump administration pushed forward, banking on a sympathetic Supreme Court to grant that power anyway.
We cannot afford to wait for the next constitutional crisis. That’s why MoveOn is organizing now to elect leaders who will reject anti-immigrant extremism and defend our constitutional rights. Click here to join MoveOn’s election program and help us win in November.
Trump’s allies in Congress have been pushing the same attack through constitutional amendments and legislation aimed at ending birthright citizenship. Today’s ruling stopped one attempt to erase a constitutional right, but anti-immigrant politicians are continuing their campaign to rewrite who gets to be an American.
This attack was never just about birthright citizenship. It is part of the same anti-immigrant agenda that has fueled reckless ICE raids separating families, people disappearing into detention without due process, children afraid to go to school, and ICE killing our neighbors in broad daylight. Birthright citizenship was just one target in a broader extremist agenda built on scapegoating, division, and the belief that some people deserve fewer rights than others. That agenda threatens not only immigrant families but the fundamental rights and freedoms of all of us.
If we want to stop future attacks on our immigrant neighbors, we must build the political power necessary to defeat the politicians driving them. Join MoveOn’s election program to turn out voters and kick out elected officials who have spent years attacking immigrants and attempting to rewrite who gets to be an American.
Today’s victory is important, but lasting protection and rights for immigrant communities will not come from court rulings alone. It will come from building the political power to defeat the politicians who enabled this attack and continue to advance anti-immigrant policies in Congress and across the country. Will you join MoveOn's election program and help turn out voters to defeat the politicians who made this attack on birthright citizenship possible?
Thanks for all you do.
–Mia, Alexis, Mark, Liz, and the rest of the team
Source:
1. "Supreme Court rejects Trump's attempt to limit birthright citizenship," NBC News, June 30, 2026
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-nixes-trump-attempt-limit-birthright-citizenship-rcna266935
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