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The Trump administration missed its deadline to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its June ruling blocking an executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents — a move that was swiftly rejected 6-3. With no new filing and the court’s rehearing window now closed, the legal path to overturn the decision is effectively shut. While three justices initially sided with the administration’s view, reversing a prior ruling would require a near-impossible shift in the court’s composition — a rarity in modern history. The order, never enforced, was already blocked by lower courts, but the debate exposed deep divisions among justices. For now, birthright citizenship remains intact, and the administration’s attempt to rewrite the law through the courts has been decisively defeated.

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