In keeping with the spirit of the beautiful game now underway in the United States as co-hosts, the scorecard in the landmark citizenship case reads: US Supreme Court 1: President Donald Trump 0. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's executive order, signed on his first day in office in January 2025, ending birthright citizenship in keeping with his infamous anti-immigrant electoral promise.

In a 6-3 decision, agreeing with the challengers and the lower courts that had held the executive order unconstitutional, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that children born in the US “to parents unlawfully or temporarily present” are “citizens at birth” under the 14th Amendment. One of the dissenting judges, Justice Samuel Alito, called the........

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