The ruling on birthright citizenship is in
The court has ruled against Trump’s order limiting birthright citizenship, handing him a stinging defeat.
In a 6-3 ruling, the justices upheld a lower court’s decision that blocked Trump’s executive order directing U.S. agencies not to recognize the citizenship of children born in the U.S. if neither parent is an American citizen or legal permanent resident.
Trump, who has repeatedly tested the limits of presidential power in domestic and foreign policy, issued the order last year on his first day back in office as part of a suite of policies to crack down on legal and illegal immigration.
The decision marked the second time this year that the court has invalidated a major Trump initiative, following its February decision to strike down his sweeping global tariffs.
The second ruling is on campaign spending limits
We now have the second of Tuesday’s three expected rulings.
This one is on the issue of campaign finance.
The court has struck down campaign spending limits, this time rejecting federal restrictions on coordinated spending between political parties and their candidates on free speech grounds.
Siding with Vice President JD Vance and other Republican challengers, the court ruled 6-3 that a cap on the amount of money parties can spend on campaigns with input from candidates violates the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protections against government abridgment of freedom of speech.
The ruling comes as major Republican committees head toward the November midterm elections with a significant cash advantage over their Democratic counterparts.
Supreme court allows states to ban transgender athletes in female sports teams
The supreme court has ruled that schools can determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports teams based on biological sex. As a result the justices effectively upheld a ban on transgender women and girls from taking part in female sports teams.
The ruling centered on the case of Lindsay Hecox, a college student in Idaho, and Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 15-year-old high school student from West Virginia.
The court also said that West Virginia and Idaho did not violate the constitution’s equal protection clause by maintaining female sports teams for biological females.
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