It was the latest attack in a quixotic campaign that the US president has waged for more than a decade. If elected, Trump promised the crowd at a resort near Disney World, “the anchor baby, birthright citizenship, it’s over.” Instead, Trump called the question Eastman raised about Harris’s citizenship at birth in his Newsweek op-ed “very serious” and a potential “problem” for her. In the court’s June decision, Chief Justice John Roberts said Trump’s first order violated the 14th amendment of the US constitution. “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights – to freely participate in our political community,” he wrote.