The US Supreme Court limits the federal courts' ability to overturn President Donald Trump's decree to stop automatic citizenship for children born in the country.
The ruling is a major victory for Trump, who had promised to repeal the right to citizenship at birth for children of parents who are not legally residing in the US. Several federal courts have blocked Trump's decree, claiming it violates the Constitution.
But according to the Supreme Court, the courts have "probably exceeded their judicial powers as granted by Congress to the federal courts".
Trump says at a press conference at the White House that the decision is a "monumental victory for the Constitution" and that it opens up the possibility of getting through more political decisions that have been "wrongly" blocked by the courts.
The Supreme Court's decision was made with a vote of 6-3. The three judges considered liberal opposed the decision. One of them, Sonia Sotomayor, says in a statement that "the court's decision is nothing but an open invitation for the government to circumvent the Constitution".
