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.
The fact that this wasn’t a 9-0 ruling is very concerning. Being a 5-4 ruling on if the 14th amendment means birthright citizenship means a little more money and this could have gone the other way.
They would then decide people who aren’t Christian are Illegally in the county. Or it’s illegal to be socialist in the us. Or lgbtq…
Fuck you Stephen Miller.
Inshallah
Amen
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.
What would “temporarily” in America mean? If you extend temporary fat back enough, nobody is a citizen and everybody can be deported.
Pretty simple actually.
“Temporary” would mean anyone who is not a permanent resident, but is in the country legally. So people on tourist or work visas. “Birth tourism” is a real thing, though nowhere near common enough to be an actual problem that justifies ending birthright citizenship.
Yes birth tourism is a real thing, but I don’t trust this regime to limit the scope of their misdeeds and not weaponize them.
I can not afford to give them a benefit of the doubt.
