Trump v. Barbara · ¶362

Second, the domicile rule aligns national citizenship with the longstanding rule for state citizenship. Even after the Court’s decision today, Americans are citizens of only the State of their domicile, even if it is not the State of their birth. Wachovia Bank, 546 U. S., at 318. No one doubts that a child born to New Yorkers on vacation in Florida would be treated as domiciled in, and a citizen of, New York. Brief for Sen. Eric Schmitt et al. as Amici Curiae 7, n. 2. For the same reason, one would think that a child born to Canadians on vacation in Florida should not be a citizen of the United States. The Court, in other words, rejects and is bewildered by an approach to citizenship that is in fact the one we still know best.

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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