SCOTUS TO RECONSIDER BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

 …fist time since 1898

Ralph Bristol

by Ralph Bristol, Facebook, Dec. 6, 2025- The U.S Supreme Court has agreed to consider President Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship. It will be the first time the court has taken up the question “head on” since 1898 in United States v. Wong Kim Ark.  Wong was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents who were lawful residents but barred from naturalization under the Chinese Exclusion Acts. The court ruled in Wong’s favor.

The difference between Wong and today’s 250,000 children born annually is that their parents are not here lawfully, but most legal scholars are still betting against Trump, arguing that the 14th amendment does not require legal status, only that they are subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S., as they clearly are. 

On the first day of his second term, Trump instructed government agencies to stop issuing citizenship documentation to children born to parents who were in the country illegally or visiting temporarily. 

A class-action suit filed by the ACLU challenged Trump’s executive order. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in that case, but before an appeals court could render a verdict on that ruling, Trump officials petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case.

The court has agreed to do so and will likely rule next June. 

Barbara v. Trump, et. al. is a class action lawsuit against Executive Order 14160.

Ralph Bristol is the former long-time morning talk radio host broadcasting on Supertalk 99.7 WTN. He was one of the less provocative and bombastic of conservative radio personalities, more thoughtful and grounded in conservative ideas. He left talk radio in 2018 and retired. He lives in Nashville. 

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