SCOTUS delivers several rulings, including on birthright citizenship

WASHINGTON (NBC, KYMA) - In its most highly anticipated ruling of this term, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOUTS) allowed birthright citizenship to stand for children born in the U.S. to parents of undocumented migrants Tuesday, despite a push from President Donald Trump to take the constitutionally-protected right away.

SCOTUS handed a big loss to President Trump on one of his day-one priorities, ruling against his effort to take birthright citizenship away from people who were born in this country, but whose parents are undocumented immigrants or non-citizens.

The president signed an executive order limiting the automatic citizenship, which is enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment to people who have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident.

The order was immediately blocked by the courts and appealed all the way up to SCOTUS, where the president attended oral arguments himself, a first for a sitting U.S. president, highlighting how important this is to him.

But the conservative court has now ruled 6-3 against his order, and the president said Monday he would accept the court's ruling.

In a separate ruling, the court's conservative majority upheld state laws that ban transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's school and college sports.

Transgender students in West Virginia and Idaho had challenged bans in their states, and lower courts allowed them to keep playing while the appeals played out.

However, the high court ruled that the bans did not violate either the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, or Title IX protections against sex discrimination in education.

The ruling will likely have broad implications for the 25 other states with similar bans, but does not force the hand of the 23 states that allow transgender athletes in women and girls' sports.

Finally, the court chipped away again at campaign finance restrictions, siding with Republicans who sought to overturn limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates for federal office.

The ruling is the latest in a series from the high court finding that campaign spending is protected under the First Amendment.