Assuming kids hate America: Justice Alito disses Supreme Court’s upholding of birthright citizenship, says everyone born in the U.S. is a citizen
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld birthright citizenship in a 6-3 decision, overturning President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the right. Trump issued the executive order at the center of this case shortly after he was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2025. Babies born to parents in the United States illegally or temporarily are not automatically entitled to citizenship, the report said. The Supreme Court ended a year-long debate and said whoever is born in the United States is a citizen.
Which 3 judges dissented?
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Samuel Alito called the ruling both “one of the most important decisions in the court’s history” and “a serious error.” In addition to Justice Alito, Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch also dissented from today’s decision.“Suppose a person’s only connection to this country is that he was born here and his mother was present just long enough to give birth to the child and then quickly return to her home country,” Justice Alito said. “Suppose this country is a strategic rival or enemy of the United States. Suppose this child has never visited the United States while growing up and has been indoctrinated to hate this country. Now, according to this court’s decision, this man is a citizen of the United States. He can come and go from the country at will. He can travel around the world on a U.S. passport. Even if he conspires to harm this country, at least under existing precedent, he cannot be stripped of his citizenship,” Justice Alito said. explain.Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined five other justices in upholding birthright citizenship, but his reasoning was different. “In my opinion, the Executive Order does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment,” he wrote in an opinion explaining his dissent. “The constitutional question is not as simple as we might hope.”
Reaction to Supreme Court order
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s anti-immigration policies, called the ruling devastating and outrageous. “American citizenship is not a birthright in the world. It belongs only to Americans. Nothing in the Constitution can be read as calling for the self-destruction of our country,” Miller said.“The Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship is wrong, dangerous and disastrous for American sovereignty and the American people,” Republican Sen. Eric Schmidt wrote. “If we can’t fix this through ordinary legislation, then we must carry out the Constitution’s mandate in this moment of national crisis: We must amend the Constitution and restore American citizenship. We must once again put ‘We the People’ first… This ruling is a final wake-up call.”““We should be a country, not an orphanage. You can’t jump our fences, have a baby, cheat the system, and expect our taxpayers to raise your kids,” echoed right-wing influencer and Charlie Kirk disciple Breelyn Houlihand. “One day we will be one country again. Illegal immigrants will be deported and birthright citizenship will end. If you are a legal immigrant and refuse to assimilate, you will be stripped of your citizenship. If we want to last another 250 years, we can’t afford to be trampled on anymore.“
