Krishnamoorthi Responds to Supreme Court Decision Upholding Birthright Citizenship

WASHINGTON - Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) today issued the following statement after the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Trump's executive order seeking to deny citizenship to many children born in the United States:

"Today's decision reaffirms a fundamental constitutional principle: every child born in the United States is an American citizen. Since its ratification in the wake of the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment has enshrined the principles of equal citizenship and equal protection under the law, including its guarantee of birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court's decision makes clear that those constitutional rights cannot be rewritten by executive order because the Constitution, not the President, governs the rights of the American people."