Hundreds rallied outside the Supreme Court this week, where the Trump administration demanded that justices nullify the kinds of the lower court orders that have blocked its unconstitutional and outrageous effort to terminate birthright citizenship – a protection explicitly guaranteed in the 14th Amendment – via executive order. Outside the courtroom, rally attendees held signs that affirmed the 160-year-old constitutional principle that everyone born in America is an American, plain and simple.
“Born here? You’re a citizen, period,” “Defend the Constitution,” and “American-born children are American children” were just a number of signs seen outside the Supreme Court. We’ve collected some posts from throughout the day below.
“Hundreds are gathered at the SCOTUS because this moment matters. It is about our children’s rights. It is about their future. Ending birthright citizenship would turn back the clock on civil rights and violate our nation’s Constitutional promises.
We will not let that happen. Not today. Not ever.”
Hundreds are gathered at the SCOTUS because this moment matters. It is about our children’s rights. It is about their future. Ending birthright citizenship would turn back the clock on civil rights and violate our nation’s Constitutional promises.We will not let that happen. Not today. Not ever.
— America's Voice (@americasvoice.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T14:17:12.993Z
“RIGHT NOW:
A crowd of advocates has gathered outside #SCOTUS as the court hears oral arguments on #BirthrightCitizenship.”
RIGHT NOW:A crowd of advocates has gathered outside #SCOTUS as the court hears oral arguments on #BirthrightCitizenship
Members from @maketheroadny.bsky.social 📢 “Show My What Democracy Looks Like”
“BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
Full stop.”
BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTFull stop.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” ~ Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, Section 1 #handsoffbirthrightcitizenship 🦋 #respecttheconstitution
— Stephanie Parajon ❌👑 (@sparajon.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T19:07:13.748Z
Trump’s executive order would create a separate class: people born here, but with fewer rights. That’s not just wrong, it’s dangerous. SEIU members are outside the US Supreme Court to say loud and clear: If you’re born here, you are a US citizen! #BirthrightCitizenship
“NOW: @fwd.us is joining @casaforall.bsky.social and organizations from across the country to urge the Supreme Court to defend birthright citizenship — a Constitutional foundation — as the justices hear arguments regarding the executive order attempting to end it.”
NOW: @fwd.us is joining @casaforall.bsky.social and organizations from across the country to urge the Supreme Court to defend birthright citizenship — a Constitutional foundation — as the justices hear arguments regarding the executive order attempting to end it.
As FWD.us noted in a policy brief, the matter at hand on Thursday was not the legality of the Trump administration’s unconstitutional executive order itself — even the administration seems to know it’ll likely lose on this issue, legal experts say – but rather whether lower courts have the power to temporarily block the unconstitutional order from going into effect nationwide.
Should the Supreme Court rule in favor of Stephen Miller and the Trump administration and nullify the lower court rulings, it could wreak havoc across the nation. Some U.S.-born infants could be denied their rightful citizenship based entirely on the state of birth, forcing “every affected newborn to sue individually while the Executive enforces its rewrite of 150 years of settled law,” according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
“The Constitution and over a century of legal precedent are crystal clear,” FWD.us posted at Bluesky. “The Supreme Court must affirm the constitutional rights guaranteed in the 14th Amendment and not allow the Trump administration to move this unconstitutional effort forward.”
A Supreme Court ruling that narrows or lifts the injunction on the unconstitutional order to end birthright citizenship would create a fractured system where a child born in one state would be a citizen, while a child born the same day in another might not. @andreaflores.bsky.social explains:
Trump is not a king, and he cannot undo a Constitutional Amendment with the stroke of a pen.The 14th Amendment is clear: if you are born on American soil, even to undocumented parents, you are a U.S. citizen.Birthright citizenship is the law and it must stay that way.
— Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (@jayapal.house.gov) 2025-05-15T18:32:02.562Z
America looks to the Supreme Court to defend birthright citizenship.President Trump cannot overthrow the 14th Amendment with an executive order. In America, we have a supreme Constitution, not a supreme leader.
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@raskin.house.gov) 2025-05-15T19:10:13.252Z
“I am a proud birthright citizen…Members of Congress like me are standing with our communities and are standing for our Constitution. The 14th Amendment is clear: if you are born in the U.S., you are a U.S. citizen.” — @ramirez.house.gov
“There should be no attempts to limit birthright citizenship. The Constitution protects this right. The Supreme Court should be in line with the Constitution.” – @meng.house.gov @capac.house.gov
@repespaillat.bsky.social at today’s Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship: “Depending on the Supreme Court’s ruling, children born here could be denied citizenship.”
Ahead of Thursday’s rally, the great-grandson of the San Francisco-born Chinese American man whose landmark 1898 Supreme Court case helped guarantee birthright citizenship, spoke out in defense of his ancestor’s legacy. While 75-year-old Norman Wong knew that his great-grandfather had been at the center of the lawsuit that enshrined birthright citizenship, he realized he would have his own battle following Trump’s promises to undo this constitutional principle.
“For the first time since he was born, Wong realized that what his great-grandfather, Wong Kim Ark, had once fought to gain, he might have to fight to keep,” Documented reported.
The Fight’s Not Over: One Family’s Battle to Keep Birthright Citizenship in the U.S.documentedny.com/2025/05/14/s…
— Documented (@documentedny.bsky.social) 2025-05-14T18:55:09.426Z
“Attacks on the constitutional rights my predecessor fought for are only meant to divide us further in our already fractured world,” Wong told Documented. “I feel privileged to be working with people who care deeply about this issue. They could have done this without me, probably, but I feel I can do my part. I believe in what I’m doing, and I think it’s right.”
We’ll know by the end of June how the Supreme Court rules. But anyone listening closely understood that the words and arguments uttered by the Solicitor General came right from the mouth of Stephen Miller, who, as NBC News recently noted, seems to be the most powerful person in the White House aside from Trump himself. “Not Vice President JD Vance. Not chief of staff Susie Wiles. Not anyone else.” And, we can’t help but wonder what Usha Vance has to say about this debate.
