Ius soli: Trump to ask the Supreme Court to review the case

The High Court very rarely grants a retrial, and it is highly unlikely to happen, despite the conservative leanings of the majority of the judges: the losing party has 25 days to lodge an appeal, but the approval of all nine judges is required to reopen a case. This is a very rare occurrence: the last time a case that had already been decided was reviewed was around 60 years ago.

“This miscarriage of justice will destroy America unless they reverse this utterly mad decision of theirs,” thundered The Donald on Truth, announcing his next move on immigration.

Trump decides everything, like an absolute monarch. He even asks for the rules of the sport to be changed at the World Cup. Because he refuses to accept defeat. At the start of the year, in a famous interview with the New York Times, he explained that ‘the only limit to his power is his morality’. According to him, only the courts – and not Congress – have the power to limit his actions, but ‘in certain circumstances’. His second term in office is characterised by an aggressive and rapid concentration of powers in the hands of the executive, at the expense of the legislative and judicial branches. In 2025, Trump signed 225 executive orders, whilst Congress, although controlled by the Republicans, passed only 49 new laws, all of minor importance. The current Congress has been the least productive in history since the end of the Second World War. In 2025, it abdicated its constitutional role in favour of the presidential executive, ceding significant powers in legislative and fiscal matters.

Even the Supreme Court has largely relinquished its power. And even when it overturns Trump’s executive orders (such as those on reciprocal tariffs or, most recently, on ‘ius soli’), he attempts, as in this case, to circumvent them and implicitly refuses to accept them.

It should be noted that, in US courts, there are currently over 600 legal proceedings underway challenging decisions taken by the Trump administration after just one year, including 200 cases brought before federal courts or courts of appeal.