Born in the U.S.A. It has always meant something, and the Supreme Court this week underscored that meaning when it ruled against the president.

If you are born in the United States, you are a citizen of the United States.

When the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868 birth right citizenship was codified into law. It says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”

Trump signed an executive order to ban birth right citizenship on the first day of his second term. Eighteen months later and he is on the losing end of this discriminatory directive.

Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas were in the minority of the 6-3 decision that came out June 30. While Justice Kavanaugh was in the majority, he said he would use federal law to quash the executive order. The other five—Justices John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson—based their decisions on the Constitution.

This means the Constitution would have to be changed for Trump to get his way.

The court’s decision makes me cautiously hopeful to believe in the rule of law that our founding fathers established with the separation of powers.