"But it’s disheartening, particularly in the light of the absolute invasion of our country that took place under the Biden administration"
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"The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship ruling today was a full-throated constitutional endorsement that the children of mothers here illegally or temporarily are “citizens at birth.”
No doubts there.
It was conventional wisdom that birthright citizenship would be upheld, but what was so shocking is that it was done on the backs of the three liberal members of the court who stuck together while the so-called conservatives splintered in numerous directions. So on the core constitutional endorsement, it was 5-4 with the majority being the three liberals (Sotomayor, Kagan, KBJ) plus CJ Roberts and Barrett. (Kavanaugh would have found the Trump EO invalid because it conflicted with an immigration statute, but he rejected the constitutional holding.)
Think about it. The three liberals prevailed on ideological core of the single biggest case of this term, one that defines who were are as a nation and whether we have sovereignty or are at the mercy of people who sneak across the border, overstay visas, or are here as birthright tourists.
“Disheartening” and “demoralizing” is how I described it in an appearance on the Tony Katz live stream today, but perhaps “infuriating” would be a better term.
The core constitutional decision was that children born here to illegal parents, who are here illegally or temporarily, are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment. That’s the core. And there were five votes for that reading. And only two of those five votes on that court, the sweeping constitutional ruling, were so-called conservatives, Coney Barrett, and the Chief who wrote the opinion joined by the liberal block.
And I thought that that was very interesting, that such a sweeping decision on the Constitution in a supposedly conservative Supreme Court, that most of those were the liberal justices.
