United States (US) President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his legal team will “immediately” ask the Supreme Court to rehear its own ruling on birthright citizenship. The court previously rejected his executive order last month in a 6-3 decision.
Trump criticized the ruling, calling it a “miscarriage of justice.”
The case challenged Trump’s executive order from his first day in office, which sought to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who are undocumented or only temporarily in the country.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. He said the 14th Amendment makes clear that anyone born on American soil and “subject to the jurisdiction” of the country is a citizen by birth. That includes children of undocumented immigrants and those on temporary visas.
Five other justices supported Roberts’ opinion, while three dissented.
If Trump gets the SCOTUS to rehear the case, it will be the first in history, as the high court has never reviewed a case after its ruling or granted a rehearing on a disputed case in decades.
Court rules require a request for rehearing within 25 days of the ruling, and only in exceptional circumstances, such as an important legal issue that the judges have overlooked.
Trump does not seem deterred. In his post, he noted claims that billboards near the southern border and in Mexico advertise “birthright citizenship” services, with prices starting at $4,000.
“This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they do not change their absolutely insane decision,” Trump wrote.
