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The only surprise is that this was not a unanimous decision
Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, striking down Trump's order
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump-decision/
In a divided decision in the case Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court found that Mr. Trump's policy is unlawful.
With its decision, the Supreme Court has now invalidated a second of Mr. Trump's signature initiatives from his second term, joining its ruling striking down many of his tariffs in February. The president signed his directive aiming to restrict birthright citizenship on his first day back in the White House as part of a sweeping crackdown on immigration.
surfered
(15,330 posts)Proving they are not originalists, as they claim. Theyre just partisan hacks.
Kavanaugh found a technical reason to vote with the majority
Mad_Machine76
(25,089 posts)It's hard to believe it was a 5-4 decision!
mwmisses4289
(5,340 posts)Does this mean lawyers can now take t, nosferatu, et al to court for violating the rights of people they have thrown in their concentration camps and close those camps down?
LetMyPeopleVote
(184,678 posts)This was really a 5-4 opinion. This is really scary. trump and these racist assholes are not going to stop going after Birthright Citizenship
Legal experts sound alarm after razor-thin birthright vote: 'The most insane part' #RawStory
— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2026-06-30T16:58:08.000Z
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-birthright-reax/
The divided court ruled in a 6-3 majority decision in Trump v. Barbara, upholding the 14th Amendment and blocking Trump's efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship, "but the Court split 5-4 on whether a future Congress could do what President Trump could not," CNN reported.
Legal experts and political commentators weighed in on the high court's decision.
"A shockingly close call on how to read plain English in the first sentence of a constitutional amendment," Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, wrote on X.
"It was struck down 6-3 decision, although only 5-4 on the Constitutional question. Four justices would have rewritten the Constitution's plain text and ignored centuries of precedent on the scope of birthright citizenship. Thankfully, they were the minority," immigration attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick wrote on X...
"A shockingly close call on how to read plain English in the first sentence of a constitutional amendment," Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, wrote on X.
"Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous," Mueller, She Wrote podcaster Allison Gill wrote on Bluesky.
"Jesus, three dissenting votes on birthright just might be the most insane part of this court's entire awful term," MS NOW host Chris Hayes wrote on Bluesky.
LetMyPeopleVote
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