On Thursday, August 6, 2026, the president signed two fresh executive orders targeting birthright citizenship, just five weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his original attempt to gut it. “We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright, it was close,” he said. The bottom line the Court left behind: birthright citizenship stays exactly as it’s always been. Given the Supreme Court just ruled definitively on the core constitutional question five weeks ago, courts reviewing these new orders won’t be starting from scratch. Whether these narrower orders survive their inevitable day in court is a different story, and one that’s likely to play out over months, not days.