President Trump was hit hard by the birthright citizenship ruling.
The Supreme Court’s decision left President Trump with a divided result on birthright citizenship and suspensions for trans athletes.
Some conservatives have suggested extreme measures may be called for in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship, including impeaching judges, sterilizing foreign visitors and disbanding labor unions.
The court ruled that President Trump’s executive order last year targeting birthright citizenship was illegal under Section 14.th An amendment to the Constitution that provides that “all persons born in or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States.”
The ruling sparked widespread outrage on the right, rallying around President Donald Trump’s push to limit constitutional provisions that grant automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country.
Sean Davis, co-founder and CEO of online magazine The Federalist, said in a social media post that there are “several paths forward” following the ruling. These include increasing the number of Supreme Court justices and requiring “all foreign visitors to be sterilized before entering the country.”
Davis also addressed the dissolution of trade unions, writing, “A state that cannot even restrict who may become a citizen is not a state.”
Fellow conservative media outlet Jack Posobiec said in a social media post: “The courts have never said that foreign nationals cannot be required to take spot pregnancy tests.”
Many on the right slammed the conservative justices who joined the majority decision.
“Thugs, impeach activist judges,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) wrote on social media. “We’re looking for you, Amy Coney Barrett.”
Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly also criticized Barrett.
“I’m sick of Barrett. I’m sick of this rant from Barrett. I have to be honest with you,” Kelly said on the show.
President Trump has pushed hard-line immigration policies centered on mass deportations, but targeting birthright citizenship may have been his most aggressive move. It clashed with the way the Constitution had long been understood and sought to dramatically redefine who was a citizen. Trump was deeply involved in the case, becoming the first sitting president to attend Supreme Court arguments.
While the president described birthright citizenship as an “anchor” around the nation’s neck, Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking for the majority, said, “Citizenship was then, and still is, a right to rights, a right to participate freely in a political community.”
“The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to “all persons born free in this land.” We are keeping that promise today,” Roberts added.
The defeat left some conservatives lamenting the path forward. Vice President J.D. Vance appeared on Fox News and called the ruling “unfortunate” and a “grave mistake,” but said there were “signs of hope.”
This showed there was significant support among the justices for abolishing birthright citizenship, which Vance described as “a step behind”. Four of the justices said President Trump’s executive order did not violate the 14th Amendment, but one justice said it violated the 1952 Immigration Act.
“We have to keep fighting because we actually have an opportunity to reverse this decision, just like we have reversed many bad decisions over generations,” Vance said.
MAGA media luminary Steve Bannon opened his June 30 podcast by declaring today a “day of infamy,” but said the fight is not over.
“You know what we’re going to do? We’re going to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and go to war,” Bannon said.
