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6-3, but how anyone could dissent is troubling.
I'm interested in what is actually in the dissent. But I also work for a living, and I guess the dissent is over 90 pages? Who has time for that shit?
But based on news reports, the main thrust of the dissent is that the birthright citizenship clause was "always meant" for babies born here whose parents had no prior allegiance to other countries, like the children of newly emancipated slaves. But that's bullshit, because those former slaves didn't choose to come here, so assuming they have no allegiance to any other country after coming here is kind of insulting.
Also, all those "Dreamers" who were brought here as small children certainly feel an allegiance here, this country is all they have ever known. It doesn't matter where their parents came from.
Maybe I shouldn't read the whole dissent, it would just piss me off. All these conservatives who claim to be "textualists" start making shit up the minute the plain text doesn't support their preconceived ideas.
The fun part is that you already know which 3 it was
Samuel Alito and Clearance Thomas.
Apparently I can’t read any better than Alito can lol
In fairness, the AP article states 3 Judges dissented, but then included Kavanaugh in the dissenter image at the bottom of the page:
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump-immigration-c73cf0c70bb550ebf0a55fafddbd935c
Kavenaugh ruled the order unconstitutional but with a different opinion (federal law instead of the constitution) maybe that is why they put him in a different group.