(The Dissenter) The Supreme Court has now done what institutional conservatives so often do when the machinery starts growling. It took a liberal assumption, treated it like ancient constitutional granite, polished it with precedent, and handed it back to the country as though the debate had already been settled by Moses on Sinai.
The case is Trump v. Barbara. The question was simple enough for any ordinary person to understand, even if the lawyers spent nearly two hundred pages decorating it with Blackstone, Reconstruction history, and judicial throat-clearing:
Does the Constitution require automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are here illegally or only temporarily?
President Trump said no. His executive order, issued on January 20, 2025, declared that such children were not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States in the constitutional sense, and therefore did not automatically qualify for citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment or the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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