JUST IN - Supreme Court Delivers Landmark Ruling in Trump Case
One of the Trump administration’s highest-profile legal battles has reached another major turning point after a key deadline passed without further action from the White House.
The development marks the latest chapter in a dispute that has drawn national attention and could continue shaping the debate over immigration and constitutional law.
The case has centered on one of the most closely watched executive actions of President Donald Trump’s second term and prompted extensive legal challenges from states, advocacy groups, and constitutional scholars.
While the administration had indicated it planned to continue fighting the issue, a procedural deadline has now come and gone.
The Supreme Court has issued its certified judgment in the birthright citizenship case after the Trump administration did not file a petition asking the justices to rehear their decision within the court’s required time frame.
The court’s ruling, issued at the end of June, left in place a lower court order blocking enforcement of Trump’s executive order seeking to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to certain children born in the United States to parents who are in the country unlawfully or temporarily.
Following that decision, Trump announced on Truth Social that he intended to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider the case.
“I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote at the time.
He also criticized the ruling, writing, “This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision.”
However, no petition for rehearing was filed before the deadline expired.
Under the Supreme Court’s normal procedures, the clerk issues a certified judgment after the period for seeking rehearing has passed, formally concluding that phase of the case unless additional legal proceedings are initiated through another avenue.
According to SCOTUSblog, the certified judgment is typically issued about 32 days after the court’s opinion when no rehearing petition is filed.
The Supreme Court’s decision leaves intact the lower court ruling that blocked Trump’s executive order from taking effect while the broader legal dispute continues.
The White House did not immediately comment after the certified judgment was issued.
Although Trump had publicly pledged to seek another review, legal experts have long viewed rehearing petitions as extremely unlikely to succeed because they require the support of a majority of the justices after at least one member of the original majority changes position.
The Supreme Court rarely grants rehearing requests in argued cases, making such petitions one of the least common forms of relief available before the court.
The June decision revealed divisions among the justices over the legal issues involved.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the court’s ruling, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the majority’s judgment but also wrote separately to explain his reasoning on portions of the case.
Following the decision, Trump argued that Congress could pass legislation addressing birthright citizenship rather than pursuing a constitutional amendment.
However, many constitutional scholars argue that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment has long been understood to guarantee birthright citizenship for nearly everyone born on U.S. soil, and they believe that any major change to that constitutional protection would likely require either a constitutional amendment or a future Supreme Court decision adopting a different interpretation.
While the administration’s decision not to seek rehearing closes this chapter of the litigation, the broader debate over birthright citizenship is unlikely to end, as immigration policy and the scope of the 14th Amendment are expected to remain major legal and political issues in the years ahead.
Trump-Endorsed GOP Candidate Wins Key Primary In Missouri
President Donald Trump’s endorsement continues to be the Midas Touch for candidates he backs in this year’s primary elections ahead of the fall midterms.
With that said, a Missouri Republican benefitted from his back during Tuesday’s primaries in the Show-Me State.
Missouri state Rep. Rick Brattin has won the Republican nomination for Missouri’s 5th Congressional District, according to projections by various media outlets.
Brattin emerged from a crowded Republican primary field and will face Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, an 11-term incumbent who was unopposed in his party’s primary.
The race is expected to draw national attention after last year’s redistricting made the district significantly more favorable to Republican candidates.
A Marine Corps veteran, Brattin was elected to the Missouri Senate in 2020 after previously serving in the Missouri House of Representatives.
President Trump endorsed Brattin on Monday, describing him as a “MAGA Warrior,” and Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) also backed his campaign.
Missouri’s 5th Congressional District has changed significantly following last year’s congressional redistricting.
Once centered on heavily Democratic areas surrounding Kansas City, the district was redrawn to extend more than 150 miles into central Missouri after state lawmakers divided the Kansas City metropolitan area among three congressional districts.
According to a CBS News analysis, the district’s electorate is now approximately 41% Democratic, compared with about 62% Democratic under its previous boundaries, making it considerably more competitive for Republicans.
Although Rick Brattin lives just outside the newly configured boundaries of Missouri’s 5th Congressional District, he represents part of the district in the Missouri Senate, according to The Kansas City Star.
If Brattin defeats Democratic Cleaver in November, Republicans would gain a seat that many national election analysts now rate as favorable to the GOP following last year’s redistricting.
A victory in the district could bolster Republican efforts to preserve their narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives during what many observers expect to be a competitive midterm election.
A Republican victory in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District would also end the congressional tenure of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a former mayor of Kansas City who has represented the district in the U.S. House since 2005.
Missouri Republicans had long discussed redrawing the Kansas City area’s congressional boundaries as the state became increasingly Republican.
Last fall, the state legislature approved new congressional maps as part of an unusual mid-decade redistricting effort.
The move came after Texas Republicans adopted a new map at the urging of Trump and California Democrats approved changes to several of their own districts.
Under Missouri’s current map, one congressional district in the St. Louis area is considered Democratic-leaning, while the state’s remaining seven districts generally favor Republicans.
The new maps have been challenged in court by opponents who argue the districts are not sufficiently compact and violate the Missouri Constitution.
However, the Missouri Supreme Court has allowed the congressional map to remain in effect, CBS News reported.
Meanwhile, Democrats are dealing with a left-wing socialist insurgency within their party.
Far-left candidate Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, defeating the more moderate Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens after one of the most closely watched and expensive Democratic primary contests of the 2026 election cycle.
El-Sayed will take on Republican Mike Rogers in November’s general election, Conservative Brief reported this week.
Immediately after the race was called on Wednesday, El-Sayed called out his opponents for attempting to use his full name as some sort of smear.
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The son of Egyptian immigrants — whose full name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed — went after Rogers and other Republicans during a victory speech for using his full name in social media pieces.
“But right now, as bitter and as divisive and as cynical as the campaign against us might have been, I want us to realize that there is so much more that unites us now,” El-Sayed told supporters.
