Trump's win in automatic birth right citizenship case is leading to a social mess

Indian H-1B Visa holders are not affected right now, but future is tense

- BY T N ASHOK

The US Supreme Court has curbed national injunctions on President Trump's effort to end automatic birthright citizenship.

The full bench of the apex court ruled 6-3 in a majority ruling that lower courts did not have the right to grant stays or injunctions on President Trump's executive orders.

Thereby, the Supreme Court on Friday handed a major win to the Trump administration by allowing it to take steps to implement its proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship.

In a 6-3 vote, the court granted a request by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by judges so that they apply only to states, groups and individuals that sued. That means the birthright citizenship proposal can likely move forward at least in part in the states that challenged it as well as those that did not.

The ruling immediately sparked a response from plaintiffs who have sued to block the executive order, with their lawyers vowing to continue the legal fight. It has long been widely accepted, including by legal scholars on left and right, that the Constitution's 14th Amendment confers automatic citizenship to almost anyone born in the United States.

In remarks to reporters at the White House, the president called the ruling "an amazing decision, one that we're very happy about," adding that the court "delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers and the rule of law, in striking down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions to interfere with the normal functioning of the executive branch."

Asked what he would say to people who fear the decision will concentrate power in presidency, Trump said, "This really brings back the Constitution. This is what it's all about, and this is really the opposite of that."