India, July 1 -- The US Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld birthright citizenship in a landmark ruling that handed a setback to President Donald Trump, who had signed an executive order at the start of his second term to revise the policy he said was a "disgrace."

With the verdict is favour of the 14th Amendment, SCOTUS observed that citizenship was promised to "every free-born person in this land".

"Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights - to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land.' We keep that promise today," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority ruling.

Enshrined in 1868, birthright citizenship was ...