Today the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. A 6-3 majority struck down Donald Trump's executive order denying birthright citizenship status to children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States, and those born to non-citizen parents here on temporary visas. I think the Court got this extremely important decision right. In so doing, they saved hundreds of thousands of people from being subject to deportation - often to a lifetime of poverty and oppression.
The dissenting opinions by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito mishandle key points. Most notably, they overlook the reality that their positions would have denied birthright citizenship to large numbers of freed slaves and other Blacks, thus negating the central purpose of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment.
