Born a Citizen... For Now

If there's any good news at the moment, it's that the Far Right Supreme Court didn't go completely evil and nuke birthright citizenship from orbit (via Lawrence Hurley at NBC News):

The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s contentious attempt to limit citizenship at birth for those born on U.S. soil, delivering a major blow to his agenda.

The court, divided 6-3, ruled that the executive order Trump issued Jan. 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, was unlawful. Five justices said the order fell afoul of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which has long been interpreted to bestow birthright citizenship on almost anyone born in the U.S.

One justice, conservative Brett Kavanaugh, said the order violated federal law but not the Constitution.

It's like, Brett, what the hell you thinking about when the other five Justices are pointing to the obvious 14th Amendment answer but you're out there waving a different flag no one asked you to wave? If you're trying to impress that one law professor you gave you a C in Legal Arguments 101, it won't work...

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said there was “scant evidence” for the Trump administration’s radical reimagining of how the law has been understood for decades.

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community,” he wrote.

The 14th Amendment was enacted after the Civil War to ensure that everyone, including former slaves, would have those rights, he added. “We keep that promise today,” he said.

Three assholes Justices in Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch argued that 14th Amendment allowed trump to dismantle birthright citizenship: Thomas arguing the 14th Amendment only applied to freed Black slaves - which is wrong - and Alito arguing this would encourage more illegals sneaking across our borders - way to be a hater, Sam.

Thing is, on an obvious and direct matter such as birthright citizenship - literally written into a constitutional amendment as clear as possible - we shouldn't even be seeing a split Court like this. A 6-3 ruling isn't anything to sneeze at, but if you consider Kavanaugh's concurrence is an attempt to negate the 14th outright (making it at heart a 5-4 narrow ruling) then we're looking at only five Justices who think the amendment's language should be enough.

So this isn't going to be the end of this fight. The racists on the Far Right - desperate to end unwanted immigration from non-Whites from Central/South America, Asia, and Africa (trump is only letting in Whites from SOUTH AFRICA for God's sake) - are going to keep pushing at the 14th Amendment - where a lot of our civil rights as we know them reside - until the courts pretend it doesn't even exist.

The only way to stop that America, the only way to make sure our rights as citizens never go away, is to STOP VOTING FOR THESE RACIST REPUBLICANS. 

Goddamn this. Citizenship should be easy, not broken.