New Delhi, July 3 -- The children were never the legal abstractions Trump's executive order made them. They were born in American hospitals, named by parents who had crossed borders to work, and raised in a country that - until January 2025 - had never seriously disputed their right to belong to it. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled, 6 to 3, that the Constitution always did and still does guarantee their citizenship.

and it came from a court Trump spent two terms building.

Roberts was joined by Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh - both Trump appointees - as well as the court's three liberal members, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dis...