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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.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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."

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Supreme Court narrowly rules in a stunning 5-4 decision that the ocean does indeed contain water.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

JFC, I didn't think it was a 5-4, but reading the article that's how it landed.

[–] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.today 21 points 1 day ago

From what I've pieced together from a couple different articles, Kavanaugh decided that Trump's executive order violated federal law but not the Constitution.

So it was 6-3 to strike down the order but 5-4 that citizenship is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Kavanaugh thinks that Congress could change that without needing a constitutional amendment.

[–] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What would "temporarily" in America mean? If you extend temporary fat back enough, nobody is a citizen and everybody can be deported.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

I hate giving them ideas, but they could easilly restrict tourist visas for pregnant women.

We already cut off asylum for non-whites, remember?

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What would “temporarily” in America mean? If you extend temporary fat back enough,

mmm... fat back bacon.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

need to change out peter for stewie.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

and unlimited money for campaigns.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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...