During a press conference at the White House on Friday, the president listed overhauling birthright citizenship, ending funding for sanctuary cities, suspending resettlement of refugees and stopping taxpayer-funded surgeries related to gender transitions as his top goals after the Supreme Court's move.

Using truncated procedures, the six-justice conservative majority gave a green light to many of the president’s most assertive initiatives.

In its June 27 ruling in the legal fight over President Donald Trump’s January executive order restricting birthright citizenship in the US, the Supreme Court didn’t weigh in on which side was right.