The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling that anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions, is a citizen.
Justices relied on the only possible way that the 14th Amendment makes sense. JFC, It’s a wonder they didn’t trip and fall over their own dicks coming to this bold decision that “oh no shit, the thing we all know what it means still means that.”
Supreme Court narrowly rules in a stunning 5-4 decision that the ocean does indeed contain water.
JFC, I didn’t think it was a 5-4, but reading the article that’s how it landed.
From what I’ve pieced together from a couple different articles, Kavanaugh decided that Trump’s executive order violated federal law but not the Constitution.
So it was 6-3 to strike down the order but 5-4 that citizenship is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Kavanaugh thinks that Congress could change that without needing a constitutional amendment.