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Miami Herald
21 hours ago
- Politics
- Miami Herald
‘Meant for the babies of slaves': Trump praises Supreme Court's birthright ruling
President Donald Trump celebrated the Supreme Court decision Friday that will allow his administration to end automatic birthright citizenship in some cases, calling the ruling a 'huge one.' The president said birthright citizenship, enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment shortly after the end of the Civil War, was meant for the 'babies of slaves.' 'It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system,' Trump said. 'Hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship, and it wasn't meant for that reason.' Appearing in the White Press press room with the president, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi echoed the president's remarks in thanking the justices for their decision. 'No longer will we have rogue judges striking down President Trump's policies across the entire nation,' she said. 'These injunctions have allowed for district court judges to be emperors.' In its 6-3 ruling, the high court did not rule on the underlying constitutionality of the president's executive order ending birthright citizenship. The ruling keeps federal judges' actions on the case limited to the areas under their jurisdiction, rather than apply nationwide. That means that the administration can move to end birthright citizenship to states where the order has not yet been challenged or stopped by federal judges. Bondi said the merits of the president's order will be decided in the Supreme Court's next session, which begins in October. She added that Fridays' decision does have indirect implications, because federal court decisions in birthright citizenship cases will only affect the part of the country where the case was filed. 'If there's a birthright citizenship case in Oregon, it will only affect the plaintiff in Oregon, not the entire country,' Bondi said. The Attorney General said the administration is confident in the Supreme Court the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the administration's interpretation of the 14th Amendment when it takes up the case on the merits in the next term. The determination of who would be tasked with vetting the citizenship of newborns in the meantime remains unclear. Bondi said the administration will provide more clarity after the Supreme Court rules on the merits of the case. 'The violent criminals in our country are the priority now,' she said. The Supreme Court decisions included a 30-day grace period before going into effect. The Trump administration said it will follow the law respecting the grace period. 'We're gonna do what's right in the bounds of the law,' Bondi said. Trump said previous administrations had been wrongly looking at birthright citizenship and claimed drug cartels haed been using it as a means to 'get very bad people' into the country. Trump reiterated multiple times that birthright citizenship only had to deal with slave-era citizenship, concluding at the end of the press conference: . 'This was a tremendous win today.'
Tom's Guide
18-06-2025
- Business
- Tom's Guide
Trump just gave TikTok an extension on ban — here's what we know
Apparently, there is a calendar alert in the White House letting President Trump know when to delay enforcing the U.S. TikTok ban. Reportedly, Trump will sign a new executive order pushing the ban back by 90 days, more than the previous two 75-day delays from January and April, and the third time the president has delayed enforcement. The current delay is set to expire this Thursday (June 19). White Press secretary Karoline Levitt gave a statement to CNN revealing that the extension should be signed in the next few days. "President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark," Levitt said in her statement. "This extension will last 90 days, which the Administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and secure." In May, Trump indicated during an interview with Meet the Press that he would delay the TikTok ban again, adding that he has a "warm spot" for the social media platform. At the time he claimed that a deal was in the works to keep TikTok available. Prior to the ban going into effect and since, Trump has repeatedly sought some American-based company or consortium to purchase the U.S. assets of TikTok. Mutliple offers have allegedly been put forward from Amazon to software giant Oracle and even the YouTuber MrBeast and Elon Musk. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. ByteDance, the Chinese parent company behind TikTok, has equally time and again asserted that it is not interested in selling. Additionally, any deal needs to be approved by the Chinese government, which reportedly pulled out of a potential deal in April due to Trump's imposed tariffs against Chinese goods that had reached 145% taxation at its highest. A lot has happened since the TikTok ban discussion kicked off in 2020 during Trump's first administration; here's a full timeline. The ban was cemented in place when President Joe Biden signed it into law in April of 2024. Since the law was signed, Trump changed his tune saying how much he liked the app and that he would seek to stop the ban. The bill signed by Biden was upheld by the Supreme Court this past January. From there Trump has been delaying the ban and allegedly attempting to strike a deal with ByteDance and China to see the app sold. Assuming nothing changes between now and September, which at this point it likely won't, we'll find out if Trump delays enforcement once again around the same time the iPhone 17 series launches.
