Trump threatens to abolish birthright citizenship through Congress after supreme court rules against him – live

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule ⁠stripping public service workers of eligibility for federal student loan forgiveness if it deems their employers to have a “substantial illegal purpose”.

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US district judge ⁠Myong Joun in ⁠Boston sided ​with Democratic-led states, cities and non-profits that argued the US Department of Education’s rule would allow it to target groups supporting immigration rights, transgender ⁠healthcare and other causes the Trump administration disfavors, by disqualifying them from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

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That program allows borrowers to have their federal ⁠student loans forgiven after 10 years working for government or non-profit employers. More than a million ​borrowers have received debt relief since Congress ‌established it in 2007.

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Donald Trump ‌in a March 2025 executive order claimed the program has “misdirected tax dollars into activist organizations that not ‌only fail to serve the public interest, but actually harm our national security and American values”.

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Donald Trump announced that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections in Dallas on 9 and 10 September.

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In the announcement on Truth Social, Trump called Dallas “One of my favorite places in the World”.

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“It has never been done before, and will be a truly Historic Event”, he added, saying that “Great Entertainment” is to be expected.

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The idea of holding the Republican national convention ahead of the midterm elections has been floated before, once a consideration for Democrats before they eventually dropped it.

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Choosing Texas for the convention puts a direct spotlight on the state’s high-stakes Senate race between Democratic nominee James Talarico and Republican nominee Ken Paxton.

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It also highlights the reverberations of Trump’s mid-decade redistricting push that began in Texas, an effort to secure more seats for Republicans in this fall’s elections.

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The ‌US Office of Government Ethics released President Donald Trump’s annual financial disclosure report, showing more than $1.4b in income ⁠from his family’s ⁠crypto ventures ​in 2025. His earnings stem from ⁠digital assets that have profited from his policies.

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Trump received ‌over $500m from World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture he and his sons co-founded.

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Trump reported another $635m from the sale of his $TRUMP meme coins.

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The president also reported over $80m ‌in income from settlements with several media companies and millions in income from his ​company licensing his name to overseas property developers.

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OGE also made available US vice-president JD Vance’s annual financial disclosure. You can view both here.

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Voters in Colorado are heading to the polls today in primary elections ahead of the November midterms. Some of the most closely watched competitions on Tuesday are Democratic primaries in key races for the governor’s mansion, Senate and the House.

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In the gubernatorial race, US Senator Michael Bennet and state attorney general Phil Weiser, are vying to win the nomination and ultimately replace Jared Polis, the term-limited Democratic governor.

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Further down ballot, first-term Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper, is being challenged by a progressive state lawmaker Julie Gonzales.

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Meanwhile, Representative Diana DeGette, who has represented the Colorado’s first House district is facing a primary challenge from Melat Kiros, a democratic socialist and former lawyer. And in the state’s third district, businessman Alex Kelloff and Dwayne Romero, an Army veteran, are competing for the nomination to face off against who emerges from the Republican primary, which includes incumbent Jeff Hurd trying to hold on to his seat.

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Meanwhile, Colorado’s eighth congressional district, political groups funded by tech executives have been targeting the key House race to ultimately oust Republican Gabe Evans, as my colleague Dara Kerr reports.

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Democrat Manny Rutinel, has seen his campaign boosted with at least $2m in donations from committees led by the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen. Rutinel is a progressive candidate running against former state representative and centrist Democrat Shannon Bird.

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  In a rebuke to Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, the supreme court upheld birthright citizenship, which provides nearly all people born in the United States with citizenship. In a 6-3 opinion, the justices ruled that the Trump administration violated a provision of the 14th amendment, which was affirmed by the supreme court 128 years ago. “Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause,” the ruling reads. The NAACP, a civil rights group dedicated to advancing the rights of Black people, called the decision a “powerful affirmation of the constitution and the enduring promise of equality it represents”. Voto Latino, a non-profit pushing for Latino voting power, said that “the court drew a permanent line in the sand – defeating a radical attempt to divide our families and strip away any doubt that our community belongs here”.

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  The president said the decision was “too bad”, but appeared undeterred in his quest to end birthright citizenship, turning his attention to Congress. Instead of trying to pass a constitutional amendment, Trump is pushing for lawmakers to create new legislation that establishes exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to parents who do not have permanent legal status in the US. “Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship,” he wrote on Truth Social. But that will also be an uphill battle, as any legislation would need to overcome the 60-vote filibuster.

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  The supreme court also ruled that schools can determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports teams based on biological sex, effectively upholding a ban on transgender women and girls from taking part in female sports teams. The ruling centered on the case of Lindsay Hecox, a college student in Idaho, and Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 15-year-old high school student from West Virginia. The court said that West Virginia and Idaho did not violate Title IX – which bars educational programs that receive federal funding from discriminating based on sex. But the court’s three liberal justices said in a dissenting opinion that the bans do impede on the constitution’s equal protection clause. The far-reaching ruling is likely to pave the way for similar bans throughout the US.

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  Also today, the supreme court justices struck down limits on campaign spending in federal elections by political parties. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the court held that the law’s “limits on political parties” coordinated expenditures violate the first amendment.

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  The supreme court also declined to consider ⁠the legality of laws that restrict people aged 18 to 20 from purchasing or using firearms, but said it will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the second amendment.

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But the supreme court will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the second amendment.

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The justices said that they will hear appeals challenging bans on the AR-15 and similar semiautomatic firearms in Connecticut and the Chicago area.

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Similar laws are in place in about a dozen states, covering major cities like New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004, but Democrats have supported renewing it in response to a series of mass shootings. States have also continued to pass their own laws, including recent measures in Virginia and Rhode Island.

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It is the latest high-profile dispute over guns to reach the court since its conservative majority handed down a landmark ruling in 2022 that expanded second amendment rights and spawned challenges to firearm laws around the country.

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Arguments are expected to be heard in the fall.

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The Connecticut law was passed after a mass shooter used an AR-15 to kill 26 children and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012.

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Also today, the supreme court declined to consider ⁠the legality of laws that restrict people aged 18 to 20 from purchasing or using firearms, an area of contention following the court’s expansion of gun rights in recent years.

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The justices turned away appeals challenging a federal ⁠ban on handgun purchases by people ⁠ages 18 to 20, as ​well as a similar state law in Florida imposing the same age requirement on all firearms purchases. Lower courts had rejected the arguments by plaintiffs in those cases that those laws violate the US Constitution’s second amendment right to “keep ⁠and bear arms”.

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The supreme court’s rejection of Pennsylvania’s appeal in another case, however, left in place a lower court’s ruling that the state’s laws that ban people ages 18 to 20 from carrying firearms in public during a declared state of emergency ⁠violate the second amendment.

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It comes after a ruling on 26 June in which the court struck down a Hawaii law restricting the carrying of handguns on private property open to the public, like most businesses, without the owner’s permission. And on 18 June it limited the application of a decades-old federal law that bars firearms possession by certain drug users, narrowing a measure that had threatened the gun rights of millions of Americans who use marijuana and own firearms.

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Donald Trump said that the decision by the supreme court to uphold birthright citizenship is “too bad”. But he appeared undeterred in his quest to abolish the right for people born in the US to undocumented people or temporary visitors to become citizens.

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“We can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation,” Trump insisted. Instead of trying to pass a consitutional amendment – which is a steep and unlikely hill for the president to climb – Trump is pushing for lawmakers to create new legislation that establish exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to parents who do not have permanent legal status in the US.

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“Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Any legislation would need to overcome the 60-vote filibuster, which has proven to be frequently insurmountable on extremely divisive bills during Trump’s second term.

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Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s top advisers and the architect of his immigration agenda, branded the opinion to uphold birthright citizenship as “one of the most destructive and outrageous decisions” in the history of the supreme court.

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“American citizenship is not the birthright of the world,” Miller added in a statement on X. “No provision of the Constitution can be read to require our national self-obliteration.”

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Meanwhile, Kevin Roberts, president of the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation, called today’s ruling “a tremendous betrayal of the republic”.

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Roberts, who masterminded the conservative playbook Project 2025, accused the justices in the majority of launching an “all-out assault” on US sovereignty. He also said they have “cheapened the sacred value of American citizenship”.

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He then called for a constitutional amendment “to correct this gross injustice”. However, it’s worth noting that this requires the support of two-thirds of Congress, and for at least three-quarters of all 50 states to ratify a hypothetical amendment.

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Speaking to reporters as the news of the supreme court’s final decisions of this term were announced, House speaker Mike Johnson said he was “disappointed” in the court’s opinion to uphold birthright citizenship.

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“I do think that this has been grossly abused in recent years,” the top Republican said at a press conference earlier. “You just come onto the soil and have your child, and then they’re they’re able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else.”

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However, during the oral arguments in the Trump v Barbara case in April, the government’s lawyer conceded that “no one knows for sure” how significant a problem so-called birth tourism actually is. The Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration thinktank, said that there are between 20,000 to 26,000 births by women on tourist visas annually. This is less than one percent of all babies born in the US each year.

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Following the court’s opinion to strike down Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, swathes of civil rights groups have welcomed the highly anticipated ruling.

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“Even a far-right supreme court realized overturning the constitutional mandate that people born here are citizens-a mandate that is more than 100 years old and has granted citizenship to millions of people-is not just a betrayal of the constitution itself but also deeply un-American,” said Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, in a statement.

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The NAACP said the president’s “assault on the 14th amendement was dealt a major blow” following the court’s ruling.

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“Today, the Court rightly rejected efforts to undermine that core protection and instead upheld a principle that is essential to our democracy,” Derrick Johnson, the organization’s president and CEO said.

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Democratic members of Congress also applauded the news.

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“There is, and shall be, no question. Donald Trump’s disgraceful actions as it relates to the Birthright Citizenship Clause are clearly unlawful and an assault on our way of life,” said top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries.

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Senator Alex Padilla, a Democrat representing California, said that today’s opinion was “personal”. The lawmaker’s parents were initially undocumented when they arrived in the US, before becoming citizens.

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“While we celebrate this ruling today, we cannot rest. Because this is certainly not the end of Trump’s attacks on our constitution, our democracy, and the notion of what it means to be American,” Padilla added.

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In a stunning rebuke to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, the US supreme court ruled against the president’s attempt to gut the ability for anyone born on American soil to obtain citizenship.

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The president issued an executive order on the first day of his second term in office that sought to undo birthright citizenship. It swiftly drew lawsuits, including from the Democratic state attorneys general and the American Civil Liberties Union, and the court heard oral arguments in the case – Trump v Barbara – back in April.

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In a 6-3 opinion, the justices ruled that the Trump administration violated a provision of the 14th amendment, which was affirmed by the supreme court 128 years ago. While conservative justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred with the judgment, he dissented in parts.

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The Trump administration said that children born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors were ineligible for citizenship, arguing that the landmark decision on birthright citizenship – United States v Wong Kim Ark – relied on parents having permanent “domicile” in the US. However, the term is not included in the 14th amendment.

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Also at the court today, the justices struck down limits on campaign spending in federal elections by political parties. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the court held that the law’s “limits on political parties” coordinated expenditures violate the first amendment.

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The supreme court has ruled that schools can determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports teams based on biological sex. As a result the justices effectively upheld a ban on transgender women and girls from taking part in female sports teams.

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The ruling centered on the case of Lindsay Hecox, a college student in Idaho, and Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 15-year-old high school student from West Virginia.

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The court said that West Virginia and Idaho did not violate Title IX – which bars educational programs that receive federal funding from discriminating based on sex. But the three liberal justices on the bench – Sonya Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – said in a dissenting opinion that the bans do impede on the constitution’s equal protection clause.

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As we noted earlier, all eyes will be back on the supreme court today, when justices will issue their latest and final decisions of this term at 10am ET.

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One of the most pivotal cases we’ll be watching is Trump v Barbara – a challenge to the president’s attempt to gut birthright citizenship. But there are two other decisions we’re waiting for. These include bans in two states prohibiting trans girls and women from taking part in female sports.

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We’ll also be looking out for the justices’ opinion on whether to uphold a lower court ruling that limits spending by political parties in support of their candidates.

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Today, the US supreme court is due to rule on one of Trump’s core policies: the right of almost anyone born on US soil to have citizenship. The right is enshrined in the 14^th amendment to the US constitution. The amendment was passed after the US civil war to determine the citizenship of American-born people who had been enslaved.

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Signing a presidential executive order on the first day of his second term in office, Trump is attempting to withhold citizenship from the children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary US visitors. His administration has argued that birthright citizenship stems from a misunderstanding of the 14th amendment.

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But Trump’s executive order was immediately met with legal challenges, with several federal judges ruling that the order violated the constitution, and federal circuit courts of appeals upholding injunctions to block the order from going into effect.

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Trump has been vocal in his disdain for the policy of birthright citizenship. On social media earlier this year, he incorrectly said, “We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!”

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There are around 30 countries that grant citizenship to those born within their borders, according to the Pew Research Center.

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Hello, and welcome to the US politics live blog.

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In a significant victory for the president on Monday, the court granted him the ability to fire leaders of some independent US agencies at will, in a move one advocacy group called “disastrous.”

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The decision to expand presidential powers overturns a precedent set in 1935, rowing back a guardrail put in place to protect agencies against corruption and political interference.

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“Our authoritarian president was just handed the keys to be even more authoritarian, and the long-term consequences will no doubt be disastrous,” said Rachel Rossi, the president of Alliance for Justice, a progressive judicial advocacy group.

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Supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor has blasted the decision, calling the ruling “egregiously wrong,” and “the one thing that does appear to be clear going forward is that chaos will follow.”

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During his second presidential term, Trump has successfully fired the leaders of several agencies, including Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve on the National Labour Relations Board.

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Trump failed in his bid however to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, with the court ruling in a 5-4 opinion that Trump’s attempt to fire her from the Fed was unconstitutional. Trump has targeted Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board, over unproved allegations of mortgage fraud.

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The court also rejected Trump’s attempt to change rules for late-arriving mail-in ballots. Trump has claimed that such ballots are vulnerable to fraud. The states that currently count postal ballots which arrive late mostly lean towards the Democrats.

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On Tuesday, the supreme court is poised to make a decision on another of Trump’s key policies: his push to remove birthright citizenship, which grants US citizenship to almost anyone born in the country, regardless of their parents’ status. On the first day of his second term in office, Trump issued a presidential order overturning the practice set out in the 14th amendment to the US Constitution.

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The court is also set to publish rulings on a Republican challenge to campaign finance limits and state restrictions on transgender athletes competing in school and college sports.

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  The supreme court rejected Trump’s request to review a 2023 verdict from a New York jury that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E Jean Carroll.

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  Trump announced that he is nominating Keith Sonderling to serve as US secretary of labor, a role he is now filling as acting secretary after Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s announced her departure in April. As acting secretary, Sonderling threatened to withhold administrative funds from states for the first time in history, warning that there will be no tolerance for “blatant waste, fraud, and abuse”.

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Donald Trump has been announcing a slate of federal disaster relief funding to several states with Trump-endorsed candidates via the social platform Truth Social.

The move comes as the US president exerts his political influence in various states by backing a slew of Republicans in the 2026 midterm election.

• Of Wisconsin, the US president said: “I just spoke with Congressman Tom Tiffany (who has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Governor!), and informed him that the Great State of Wisconsin has been approved to be given $22.6 Million Dollars in its Disaster Declaration Request, for Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding”.

• Louisiana: Trump said the state has been approved to receive $8.6m in its disaster declaration request. “Louisiana is truly a special place, with Governor Jeff Landry, Senator John Kennedy, soon to be Senator Julia Letlow, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and Congressman Clay Higgins“, Trump said.

• Michigan: The state was allocated $32.1m for severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding. Mike Rogers, who is running for US Senate, gubernatorial candidate John James, congressmen Jack Bergman, John Moolenaar, Bill Huizenga, Tim Walberg, Tom Barrett, and Lisa McClain are his favorites in the state.

• Georgia: The state is slated to receive $318.3m, per Trump’s post, in a request related to Hurricane Helene.

• Florida: The sunshine state has been approved to receive $415.9m in disaster relief funding.

• Kansas: The state will receive $5.5m in disaster relief funding related to severe storms in April. “They will soon have a fantastic Governor in Ty Masterson, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement”.

• Mississippi: Disaster relief funds totaling $11m have been approved, according to Trump.

• Idaho: Meanwhile, the gem state has been approved to be given $4.5m in funding for disaster relief.

• Missouri: The state received approval for $27.6m in disaster relief funding.

Reuters is reporting that the department of commerce is ⁠expected to ​lift export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 AI ⁠model today.

The move comes less than three weeks after the ⁠company was ordered to suspend access ​to its ‌most advanced ‌AI models over national security risks.

The ‌export-control order was received on 12 June, making Anthropic abruptly disable its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models. Anthropic said ​the order has been partially reversed, as the US government allowed it to release its Claude Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model ⁠to some “trusted” US organizations.

Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick said in a social media post that, over the past two weeks, the US government has been working “closely with Anthropic to analyze and approve Fable 5 to ensure alignment across the US Government and strengthen America’s leadership in AI”.

Judge blocks rule to strip public service workers of student loan forgiveness

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule ⁠stripping public service workers of eligibility for federal student loan forgiveness if it deems their employers to have a “substantial illegal purpose”.

US district judge ⁠Myong Joun in ⁠Boston sided ​with Democratic-led states, cities and non-profits that argued the US Department of Education’s rule would allow it to target groups supporting immigration rights, transgender ⁠healthcare and other causes the Trump administration disfavors, by disqualifying them from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

That program allows borrowers to have their federal ⁠student loans forgiven after 10 years working for government or non-profit employers. More than a million ​borrowers have received debt relief since Congress ‌established it in 2007.

Donald Trump ‌in a March 2025 executive order claimed the program has “misdirected tax dollars into activist organizations that not ‌only fail to serve the public interest, but actually harm our national security and American values”.

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Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s hardline border czar, said enforcement should “step up” amid the supreme court’s ruling against the president’s attempt to end the right to US citizenship for children born in the United States.

“Now, we step up enforcement”, Homan said in an interview on Fox News. “We step up more enforcement, even though we’re doing record amounts of enforcement now”.

“We need to, you know, really buckle down on birth tourism”, he added, referring to pregnant women who travel to the US and give birth so their child can acquire American citizenship (no US agency tracks this). “We have many investigations on birth tourism, but we need to triple, quadruple down on that”.

Republicans to hold first-ever national convention ahead of the midterms, set for September in Dallas

Donald Trump announced that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections in Dallas on 9 and 10 September.

In the announcement on Truth Social, Trump called Dallas “One of my favorite places in the World”.

“It has never been done before, and will be a truly Historic Event”, he added, saying that “Great Entertainment” is to be expected.

The idea of holding the Republican national convention ahead of the midterm elections has been floated before, once a consideration for Democrats before they eventually dropped it.

Choosing Texas for the convention puts a direct spotlight on the state’s high-stakes Senate race between Democratic nominee James Talarico and Republican nominee Ken Paxton.

It also highlights the reverberations of Trump’s mid-decade redistricting push that began in Texas, an effort to secure more seats for Republicans in this fall’s elections.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said that he “strongly disagrees” with a federal judge’s decision to block the department of defense from requiring journalists to be accompanied by an official escort in the Pentagon.

“This ruling strips away reasonable security measures and will make it easier for sensitive and classified information to reach our adversaries”, Parnell said in a social media statement.

“Unescorted access to the Pentagon allowed journalists to observe activity patterns and develop relationships that contributed to repeated unauthorized disclosures of operational plans and intelligence”, he added. “The court’s order effectively restores that risky environment at a time when protecting our military’s secrets is more critical than ever”.

Parnell said that the decision will be appealed.

Trump earned more than $1.4b in income ⁠from family’s ⁠crypto ventures ​last year, financial disclosure report shows

The ‌US Office of Government Ethics released President Donald Trump’s annual financial disclosure report, showing more than $1.4b in income ⁠from his family’s ⁠crypto ventures ​in 2025. His earnings stem from ⁠digital assets that have profited from his policies.

Trump received ‌over $500m from World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture he and his sons co-founded.

Trump reported another $635m from the sale of his $TRUMP meme coins.

The president also reported over $80m ‌in income from settlements with several media companies and millions in income from his ​company licensing his name to overseas property developers.

OGE also made available US vice-president JD Vance’s annual financial disclosure. You can view both here.

Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of participating in a scheme to pursue election conspiracy theories disseminated by Donald Trump, visited the US president at the White House, according to a post on Truth Social.

“‘FREE TINA!’ became the rallying cry of the Republican Party over the past two years”, Trump wrote. “Tina Peters just came to the White House to thank me for getting her released from prison in Colorado”.

Peters, while serving as Mesa county clerk, helped breach the county’s election computer systems in 2021 and allowed an unauthorized person to access voting equipment and election records.

The breach was prompted amid baseless claims that mass voter fraud had caused Trump to lose the White House in the 2020 presidential election. Peters was convicted in 2024 of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and other crimes by jurors in Mesa county.

Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ sentence, after Trump repeatedly urged Polis to pardon her as part of a continued effort to spread false information about the 2020 election, and she was released earlier this month.

“It was an Honor to have lunch with her”, Trump said today. “I was fortunate, my Vote in 2024 was TOO BIG TO RIG, but they tried. There wasn’t a thing they could do about it, but not everyone is in that position”.

A group of House Republicans, led by Florida representative Anna Paulina Luna, joined Democrats to block a procedural rule needed to pass major bills, a move that blocks Speaker Mike Johnson’s efforts to bring legislation to the floor before a recess.

This has been the second week the group of Republicans has blocked the House, refusing to pass a defense bill in an effort to force Senate passage of a voter ID measure pushed by President Donald Trump.

A procedural vote needed to open debate on the National Defense Authorization Act and other legislation failed 224-198 after 14 hardline Trump allies broke with party leadership for failing to allow the SAVE America Act’s voter ID requirements to be attached to the defense bill as an amendment.

Per Reuters, Johnson told reporters that ‌party leaders would spend the next day and a half working to overcome internal differences and move toward passage of the NDAA, an annual bill that sets policy ‌for the Pentagon.

“This is life with a small margin, small majority, and we’ll work through it,” he said.

Anna Betts

Supreme court decisions often provide a window into the court’s ideological leanings and judicial philosophies. In recent years, the court, which is composed of six conservative and three liberal justices, has issued rulings that have dramatically reshaped the federal government and American life.

On Tuesday, the court struck down Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, delivering a blow to a central piece of the Trump administration’s agenda in one of the most highly anticipated decisions of the term.

Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the majority opinion, which ruled that the executive order issued by Trump at the start of his second term violated the 14th amendment of the constitution.

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights – to freely participate in our political community,” wrote Roberts. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”

Roberts, in his opinion, wrote that “the Government and the principal dissent err” when it came to their definition of “allegiance”.

“Natural allegiance, they contend, was no longer sufficient for citizenship; some greater quantum of allegiance was required,” he wrote.

“How much?” Roberts asked. “The Government offers a smorgasbord of formulations: ‘primary allegiance,’ ‘sufficient allegiance,’ ‘full allegiance,’ ‘requisite allegiance’ … What all these formulations supposedly share is that they turn on domicile – the place of one’s permanent home. At some point before the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the argument goes, it became ‘deeply rooted’ in this country that ‘[d]omicile is the key concept that creates allegiance’.”

“The trouble is that there is scant evidence for this dramatically revisionist view. Certainly no one said that such a change had occurred,” Roberts wrote.

Read more quotes from today’s supreme court birthright ruling:

Lauren Gambino

The long-held principle of birthright citizenship, affirmed today by the US supreme court, is deeply woven into American life.

Despite the president’s effort to dismantle it, birthright citizens serve at the highest levels of his administration, including the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and FBI director Kash Patel. Americans guaranteed citizenship under the 14th amendment’s birthright clause have won Oscars, Nobel prizes, Olympic medals – and may yet help deliver something the US has chased for generations: a men’s World Cup trophy.

The long-shot dream rests, in part, with striker Folarin Balogun, whose accidental birth in Brooklyn made him eligible to play for Team USA.

Balogun’s mother had planned to return to England after a vacation in New York, but, while heavily pregnant, was prevented from boarding her flight because the airline determined that she was too close to her due date to fly safely.

After growing up in the UK, Balogun ultimately chose to play for the US – the country where he was born – even though he is also eligible to represent England and Nigeria.

“I’m extremely proud my individual journey will come full circle now,” Balogun told reporters before the tournament began. “Especially the World Cup being here, the opportunity to represent my nation. It’s going to be something special for me.”

In his opening appearance at the World Cup, the striker notched two goals against Paraguay. The US has advanced to the knockout stage, and next plays Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday in Santa Clara, Cailfornia.

Voters in Colorado head to polls in competitive primary elections

Voters in Colorado are heading to the polls today in primary elections ahead of the November midterms. Some of the most closely watched competitions on Tuesday are Democratic primaries in key races for the governor’s mansion, Senate and the House.

In the gubernatorial race, US Senator Michael Bennet and state attorney general Phil Weiser, are vying to win the nomination and ultimately replace Jared Polis, the term-limited Democratic governor.

Further down ballot, first-term Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper, is being challenged by a progressive state lawmaker Julie Gonzales.

Meanwhile, Representative Diana DeGette, who has represented the Colorado’s first House district is facing a primary challenge from Melat Kiros, a democratic socialist and former lawyer. And in the state’s third district, businessman Alex Kelloff and Dwayne Romero, an Army veteran, are competing for the nomination to face off against who emerges from the Republican primary, which includes incumbent Jeff Hurd trying to hold on to his seat.

Meanwhile, Colorado’s eighth congressional district, political groups funded by tech executives have been targeting the key House race to ultimately oust Republican Gabe Evans, as my colleague Dara Kerr reports.

Democrat Manny Rutinel, has seen his campaign boosted with at least $2m in donations from committees led by the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen. Rutinel is a progressive candidate running against former state representative and centrist Democrat Shannon Bird.

Chris Stein

The House of Representatives just rejected a war powers resolution that would have prevented the United States from engaging in hostilities with Lebanon.

While southern Lebanon has been the site of fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, the United States is not publicly known to be directly involved in that conflict, though it has been an issue in the peace talks between Washington and Tehran.

Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib proposed a resolution that would have required the United States to cease any hostilities with Lebanon seven days after its passage, but the House rejected it this afternoon by a 189-235 vote.

Tlaib had proposed a similar resolution earlier this month, but it failed overwhelmingly, in part due to the opposition of House Democratic leaders, who said in a statement that “currently, there are no U.S. servicemembers involved in combat operations or hostilities in Lebanon.”

The resolution voted on today was largely the same as Tlaib’s first attempt, but included carveouts for security cooperation with the Lebanese military as well as protection of diplomatic facilities. It also specified that the resolution may not be constrained as authorizing the use of US military force in Lebanon.

More Republicans and allies of the president have decried the supreme court’s ruling that rejects Donald Trump’s executive order that tries to end birthright citizenship.

Top GOP senator Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, said that he has been pushing legislation and a constitutional amendment “for years” to put an end to birthright citizenship.

“While I’m disappointed in the Court’s decision regarding birthright citizenship, I am determined more than ever to put an end to this major magnet for illegal immigration and birth tourism,” the South Carolina Republican said.

Similarly, Eric Schmitt, a Republican senator from Missouri, noted that in the wake of an “erroneous” supreme court ruling, Congress has “a duty to examine” the constitution’s text, and “also has the power to respond”.

“When the Court mistakenly interprets a statute, Congress can amend the statute through bicameralism and presentment,” Schmitt said.

Chris Stein

Republican congressman Tom Kean Jr, who has not been seen in the Capitol for nearly four months without explanation, has reemerged and said that he was absent while dealing with depression.

“Several months ago, due to health concerns, I entered the hospital for some testing. I did not believe that this would result in a long-term stay. I was given the diagnosis of depression,” Kean said in a speech on the floor of the House Tuesday morning.

Kean, who represents a swing district in New Jersey, last voted on 5 March before disappearing, and his office said little about where he had gone or when he would be back. The congressman did not explain why he had kept his mental health struggles to himself, but indicated that treatment for depression took longer than expected.

“The doctors recommended that I remain in the hospital to address my illness. They explained to me that this would be the fastest way to recover, and to be honest, I was hesitant. I didn’t think that I had time for it,” Kean said, adding that he did not believe he would need a “long-term stay” in the hospital.

“When I first informed the public that I was dealing with a medical issue, I was still trying to understand what was happening myself. When I said I hope to return in a matter of weeks, I believed it. Those were the best estimates the doctors could provide, but as the over 48 million of my fellow Americans being treated for this illness have come to discover, there is no timeline for healing.”

Kean said that he was “grateful that I accepted help, because today I stand before you healthier, stronger, and excited to return to the work that I love.”

Kean’s mysterious absence fueled media speculation about where he might be, and what might have been keeping him away from the Capitol, where his absence complicated the GOP’s ability to control of the House of Representatives. Last week, a New York Times reporter found Kean at his New Jersey home, but the congressman declined comment.

In 2023, Democratic senator John Fetterman sought inpatient treatment for depression, but in that case, his office promptly announced his hospitalization.

The day so far

• In a rebuke to Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, the supreme court upheld birthright citizenship, which provides nearly all people born in the United States with citizenship. In a 6-3 opinion, the justices ruled that the Trump administration violated a provision of the 14th amendment, which was affirmed by the supreme court 128 years ago. “Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause,” the ruling reads. The NAACP, a civil rights group dedicated to advancing the rights of Black people, called the decision a “powerful affirmation of the constitution and the enduring promise of equality it represents”. Voto Latino, a non-profit pushing for Latino voting power, said that “the court drew a permanent line in the sand – defeating a radical attempt to divide our families and strip away any doubt that our community belongs here”.

• The president said the decision was “too bad”, but appeared undeterred in his quest to end birthright citizenship, turning his attention to Congress. Instead of trying to pass a constitutional amendment, Trump is pushing for lawmakers to create new legislation that establishes exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to parents who do not have permanent legal status in the US. “Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship,” he wrote on Truth Social. But that will also be an uphill battle, as any legislation would need to overcome the 60-vote filibuster.

• The supreme court also ruled that schools can determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports teams based on biological sex, effectively upholding a ban on transgender women and girls from taking part in female sports teams. The ruling centered on the case of Lindsay Hecox, a college student in Idaho, and Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 15-year-old high school student from West Virginia. The court said that West Virginia and Idaho did not violate Title IX – which bars educational programs that receive federal funding from discriminating based on sex. But the court’s three liberal justices said in a dissenting opinion that the bans do impede on the constitution’s equal protection clause. The far-reaching ruling is likely to pave the way for similar bans throughout the US.

• Also today, the supreme court justices struck down limits on campaign spending in federal elections by political parties. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the court held that the law’s “limits on political parties” coordinated expenditures violate the first amendment.

• The supreme court also declined to consider ⁠the legality of laws that restrict people aged 18 to 20 from purchasing or using firearms, but said it will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the second amendment.

Supreme court will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles violate the second amendment

But the supreme court will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the second amendment.

The justices said that they will hear appeals challenging bans on the AR-15 and similar semiautomatic firearms in Connecticut and the Chicago area.

Similar laws are in place in about a dozen states, covering major cities like New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004, but Democrats have supported renewing it in response to a series of mass shootings. States have also continued to pass their own laws, including recent measures in Virginia and Rhode Island.

It is the latest high-profile dispute over guns to reach the court since its conservative majority handed down a landmark ruling in 2022 that expanded second amendment rights and spawned challenges to firearm laws around the country.

Arguments are expected to be heard in the fall.

The Connecticut law was passed after a mass shooter used an AR-15 to kill 26 children and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012.

Supreme court turns away cases testing firearm age restrictions

Also today, the supreme court declined to consider ⁠the legality of laws that restrict people aged 18 to 20 from purchasing or using firearms, an area of contention following the court’s expansion of gun rights in recent years.

The justices turned away appeals challenging a federal ⁠ban on handgun purchases by people ⁠ages 18 to 20, as ​well as a similar state law in Florida imposing the same age requirement on all firearms purchases. Lower courts had rejected the arguments by plaintiffs in those cases that those laws violate the US Constitution’s second amendment right to “keep ⁠and bear arms”.

The supreme court’s rejection of Pennsylvania’s appeal in another case, however, left in place a lower court’s ruling that the state’s laws that ban people ages 18 to 20 from carrying firearms in public during a declared state of emergency ⁠violate the second amendment.

It comes after a ruling on 26 June in which the court struck down a Hawaii law restricting the carrying of handguns on private property open to the public, like most businesses, without the owner’s permission. And on 18 June it limited the application of a decades-old federal law that bars firearms possession by certain drug users, narrowing a measure that had threatened the gun rights of millions of Americans who use marijuana and own firearms.

Rachel Leingang

In today’s decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that “the Court exhaustively canvassed the text and history of the Citizenship Clause and at no point identified any evidence that the ratifiers thought themselves to be imposing a domicile limitation”.

Roberts repeatedly bats down the idea that “domicile” was much more expansive an idea, and that primary allegiance to the US was commonly seen as part of that definition, both arguments the government tried to make in its case. He writes that “there is scant evidence for this dramatically revisionist view”.

The quest to overturn birthright citizenship has gained steam among some conservatives in recent years, though most legal scholars still believe the amendment has been interpreted correctly. The administration is relying in part on the legal arguments of a white supremacists from the late 1800s, the Washington Post reported. John Eastman, a lawyer who worked with Trump to try to overturn the 2020 election results who has since been disbarred in California, is also a key proponent of the effort to overturn birthright citizenship, Politico reported.