U.S. Supreme Court blocks Trump on birthright citizenship and Fed chair removal

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two separate rulings that curbed President Donald Trump’s executive actions. In a 6‑3 decision the Court rejected Trump’s attempt to end the constitutional right to birth‑right citizenship, upholding the 14th Amendment provision that anyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen, with the minority justices warning that the challenge would have stripped citizenship from hundreds of thousands of children of undocumented parents. A week later the Court, by a narrow 5‑4 vote, blocked the administration’s effort to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, affirming that a president may remove a Fed official only for “good cause” and preserving the central bank’s independence. Both decisions were seen as setbacks to Trump’s agenda to tighten immigration rules and increase presidential control over monetary policy.