The Mass. Angle on US Supreme Court Decisions
The justices said the Constitution bars Trump’s citizenship order, while a separate ruling could let his administration remove status from 1.3 million people.
- The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship last week, ruling 6-3 that it violates the 14th Amendment. The justices rejected the administration's argument that citizenship should depend on a parent's "domicile" rather than birth on U.S. soil.
- In a separate 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court allowed the administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians. The decision bars judicial review of the Department of Homeland Security's determination, setting the stage for mass deportations of 350,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians.
- There was "insufficient" reason to believe the TPS termination was driven by racism, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. Attorney Geoff Pipoly, representing Haitian plaintiffs, warned that many people deported to gang-violence-wracked Haiti "are going to needlessly die."
- Republican Senator Eric Schmitt attacked Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for joining the court's liberals in the birthright decision. Schmitt called the opinion "shockingly wrong," claiming it ensures elections get bogged down by "never-ending counts" and mail-in ballots.
- Future vetting of judicial nominees will likely become more rigorous to ensure candidates vote to abolish birthright citizenship, Vox justice reporter Ian Millhiser noted. The ruling suggests Barrett is less of a reliable conservative than Justice Clarence Thomas or Alito.
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The Chilling Ramifications of Clarence Thomas’s Cuckoo Barbara Dissent
Many commentators, myself included, perceived a different headline to the Supreme Court’s rejection in Trump v. Barbara of Trump’s executive order in the birthright citizenship case. The real gobsmacking detail was not the court’s holding, which was broadly signaled in oral arguments, but the fact that four justices—Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh—were prepared to uphold a radically counter-textual reading of the…
MAGA risks losing its edge on the Supreme Court with relentless attacks on Trump judge
Conservatives have been on the attack against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she ruled against President Donald Trump's executive order in the birthright citizenship case. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows that Barrett has the lowest polling of any other justice at a time the High Court itself enjoys only 36 percent approval. It's largely because she never had any support from Democrats and has lost support from Republicans. But w…
Editorial: Trump, refugees and the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday expanded President Trump’s power over immigration—or so the press proclaims. The White House no doubt wishes that were true, but the six conservative Justices merely ruled that judges can’t usurp power that Congress delegated to…
Architect of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Doesn’t Think President Will Accept SCOTUS Decision
The Supreme Court last week struck down President Trump's 2025 executive order that attempted to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. However, the man who authored the first draft said Tuesday he doubts the fight is over for the president and his supporters. The author, Theo Wold, a former assistant attorney general and White House deputy assistant for Domestic Policy under Trump who wrote the original draft, s…
Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship in 5-4 Decision – Roberts, Coney Barrett Side With Liberals
Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship in 5-4 Decision – Roberts, Coney Barrett Side With Liberals | 30 June 2026 | The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship in a 5-4 decision. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. “Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of…
The Mass. angle on US Supreme Court decisions
THE US SUPREME COURT’S final stretch before its summer recess ended last week with a flurry of rulings on high-profile cases, including birthright citizenship, the independence of the Federal Reserve, trans athletes, and mail-in ballots. More ideologically split than in prior terms, the highest court in the nation often divided cleanly along political lines, and its conservative majority prevailed 6-3 in more than a fifth of its rulings this ses…
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