The ruling is a major setback for Donald Trump's immigration agenda, and has been welcomed by civil rights groups.
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    6 days ago

    the vote was 6-3.

    All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
    -14th amendment of the US constitution, section 1.

    WORDS MEAN WORDS YOU ILLITERATE FUCKWIT TRAITORS

    (sorry. Just screaming into the void here.)

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
    14·
    6 days ago

    Another of the dissenting Justices, Samuel Alito, described the ruling as a “serious mistake” that “confers citizenship on virtually anyone who happens to be born in this country”, including those who come to the US with the explicit purpose of giving birth to a child and then returning to their country of origin.

    Alito deciding he should legislate from the bench. Shocking.

    They’re using post reconstruction citizenship theory from stuff like the Chinese exclusion act to argue about what the reconstruction framers meant and saying it’s originalist. It’s fucking bonkers