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Trump Courts Another Legal Defeat on Birthright Citizenship

Less than two months after losing at SCOTUS, Trump tries again with more misguided executive orders.

Damon Root | 8.18.2026 7:00 AM

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Less than two months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled his executive order on birthright citizenship to be unconstitutional, President Donald Trump has issued not one but two new executive orders on birthright citizenship that largely retread the same illegal grounds that the Supreme Court already rejected in Trump v. Barbara.

Is this just a futile outburst from a consummate sore loser? Or does Trump actually stand a chance of faring any better in court this time around?

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