President Donald Trump called the ruling "a monumental decision" in remarks after the court split along ideological lines on his plan to end automatic birthright citizenship.

The Trump administration wants to end automatic birthright citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to take steps to implement its proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship, handing a major win to the government.

The court granted a request by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by judges so that they apply only to states, groups and individuals that sued. That means the birthright citizenship proposal can likely move forward at least in part in the states that challenged it as well as those that did not.

The court was divided on ideological lines, with conservatives in the majority and liberals in dissent.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    49·
    12 hours ago

    Isn’t this, like, catastrophic? Now, the government can basically do whatever it wants to people who don’t have the resources to challenge it in court themselves, or live in a state that will do it on their behalf.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
        6·
        11 hours ago

        Eh, close, but that’s still theoretically barely viable until the administration takes the affirmative step of saying “everybody in Denver can’t vote but Rifle’s cool”, at which point anybody in Denver who can’t get a lawyer and a court date is probably screwed,

        So, yeah I guess the difference between rule of law being down for the count and democracy going into hibernation might be entirely semantic in practice

        Do with that as you will

        I’m going to believe a lot of people are about to realize what a bad idea this all is and keep telling people what a bad idea this all is and eventually live in a better world or get dumped in a mass grave for running my mouth. Good luck everybody.

    • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
      81·
      10 hours ago

      Want to hear something that would be a hoot if it weren’t so depressing?

      I asked ChatGPT “with no more birthright citizenship, how can i prove that I’m an American?” IT COULDN’T ANSWER. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that, and I use it a lot for work.

      • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        My best guess is you’ll now need to have your parents and maybe even grandparents birth certificates if they were US citizens. That would be solid proof. If you get to see a judge

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 hours ago

        Someone in this admin will try to say, “Both of your parents were born here… but their parents were here illegally so none of your citizenship counts.”

        • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 hours ago

          What do you mean try?

          Given the opportunity, they will say this. And given this Congress and this Supreme Court, they’ll succeed.