Trump admin live updates: Supreme Court rules on birthright citizenship; upholds state’s trans ban

WASHINGTON — NPR retracted a story Tuesday announcing the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

The associate justice joined the high court in 2005 as an appointee of former President George W. Bush to fill a vacancy left by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Trump nominated three justices who were confirmed to the Supreme Court during his first term.

If Alito retired, the 47th president would be afforded a fourth pick.

President Trump declared a “big win” after the Supreme Court upheld West Virginia’s law restricting transgender females from taking part in girls’ and women’s sports.

“BIG WIN: The United States Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Wow! That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!!,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

Trump campaigned on keeping biological men out of women’s sports and has been an outspoken critic of universities that allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s contests.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court smacked down President Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants and tourists, quashing a marquee policy of his for the second time in six months.

Trump’s day one order had been in limbo amid a legal battle over whether it violated the 14th Amendment, which states: “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.”

The subsequent Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 clarified that birthright citizenship is automatically granted to “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) chided Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) on Tuesday for not being “more transparent” about a health condition that has kept him away from his legislative duties for nearly four months, while emphasizing the prolonged absence wasn’t “scandalous.”

“There’s no conspiracy involved,” Johnson said in a news conference on Capitol Hill. “This isn’t scandalous at all. He has a health condition, as he said. If it were me, I would have been more specific about that, and I encouraged him to be, and he will today.”

“It’s not an uncommon kind of condition and ailment that he’s been fighting, and I think people resonate with that. I think he’ll get a lot of empathy,” added Johnson.

“I’ll say this about my colleague: he’s a genuinely good man. He comes from a long line … in public service. His family is very well known for their service, and he’s a person of integrity, and I think he’ll address this with the integrity and the character that he’s always shown us as a great team player, a patriot, a faithful hope servant,” Johnson continued.

The House speaker acknowledged that his colleague had “missed some votes” but was “working as he was able” during his time away from Congress.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled that federal limits on coordinated spending between political parties and their preferred candidates are unconstitutional, a decision with sweeping implications for this year’s midterm elections and beyond.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) had mounted a First Amendment challenge in 2022 to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, arguing that it unconstitutionally capped so-called “coordinated funding expenditures,” which are mainly used for campaign advertising.

The high court had upheld the expenditure limits in the 2001 case of FEC v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, but the NRSC argued that events since that ruling — including the rise of Super PACs, changes in campaign finance law, and the court’s own decision in 2010’s Citizens United v. FEC — had made the 2001 decision obsolete.

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The White House celebrated a Supreme Court ruling that upheld West Virginia’s law restricting transgender females from taking part in girl’s and women’s sports.

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“FROM NOW ON, WOMEN’S SPORTS WILL ONLY BE FOR WOMEN,” the White House social media accounts blasted, using all caps and adding a picture of President Trump looking victorious.

Iran has not received any of the $6 billion in frozen assets the US pledged to dole out in exchange for progress made implementing the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, Qatar confirmed Tuesday.

While Iran has argued the funds should be delivered in a lump sum, the US intends to make small, incremental payouts — directly to vendors — as Iran progresses in key negotiation areas such as opening the Strait of Hormuz and making nuclear concessions.

“So far, no funds have been transferred,” Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said Tuesday.

It came a day ahead of an Iranian delegation’s planned trip to Doha, where Iranian sources say Tehran intends to hammer out how to access the frozen funds.

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are also in Qatar, but will not meet directly with the Iranian team.

The Supreme Court has upheld West Virginia’s law restricting transgender females from taking part in girl’s and women’s sports.

The 6-3 opinion, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, finds that “Title IX allows schools to provide separate women’s and men’s sports teams defined by biological sex, and West Virginia has permissibly maintained female sports for biological females consistent with Title IX.”

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to decide the last four cases of its 2025-26 term Tuesday, with major implications for the future of immigration, women’s sports, and the midterm elections.

Here are the cases that are still pending.

Birthright citizenship

By far the most closely watched case is the challenge to President Trump’s day-one executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants and foreign tourists.

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The Supreme Court ruled that the president can fire Federal Trade Commission members without cause, strengthening presidential control over independent agencies. This decision, a 6-3 majority opinion, overturns a century-old law. The ruling could allow the president to dismantle the “Deep State,” The Post’s Editorial Board predicts, by removing thousands of federal employees who undermine policy directives.

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President Trump shared an image Monday of a decorative golden eagle attached to the railing along the Truman Balcony at the White House.

“A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump’s post included the image of the decoration, which appears to be similar to the Great Seal of the United States.

It’s unclear who the gift is from or what the 11 stars around the red, white and blue shield in front of the eagle represent.

The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

House Republicans on Monday unveiled a plan to combine President Trump’s long-sought election integrity legislation with a must-pass defense policy bill. 

“We’re going to pass a MIRV, or what’s better known as a merge onto the rule,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters, according to The Hill. “So what that means is, when Republicans vote for the rule, they’ll be voting not just for the [National Defense Authorization Act] and everything else is there, but they’ll be voting to merge onto that the SAVE America Act we passed back in February.”

“So that will send both of those items together over to the Senate, and so if any Republicans choose to vote against the rule, they will be voting against that outcome.”

The House Rules Committee advanced the $1.1 trillion NDAA and the gambit to attach the Save America Act to it Monday night. 

The top Democrat on the rules panel, Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.), said he expects the Senate to remove the Save America Act from the NDAA if the defense bill clears the full House. 

“The Senate will just strip the SAVE Act out,” McGovern said, according to Politico. “There is a zero percent chance SAVE ends up in the [NDAA] because of this rule today.”

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