India, July 1 -- The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship, handing the White House one of its biggest legal defeats of the year. The court ruled 6-3 that Trump's executive order violated the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment.

The ruling for birthright citizenship reaffirmed that nearly everyone born on US soil is automatically a US citizen.

Although the Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's three liberal justices and two other conservatives to reject Trump's order.

Trump's executive order, signed on his first day after returning to office, instructed not to recognize citizenship for children born in the U...