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.
It’s worse than that.
This is, I believe, the fourth or fifth amendment to the Constitution that has been hand-waved away once it became inconvenient. Birthright citizenship is no longer a thing. Due Process is no longer a thing. Insurrectionists can run for President. Freedom of the Press can be invalidated by executive order. The US Constitution isn’t even secondary to federal policy. It’s been successfully relegated to a really old piece of paper with some guidelines that can be ignored at will. Our elected officials have made the repeated and affirmative decision to not enforce or defend the Constitution of the United States, and our Supreme Court has given them their blessing to do just that. With nobody willing or able to enforce, uphold, and defend the Constitution, it has all the practical legal weight of a Dr. Seuss book.
And yes, the rule of law is long gone. It’s been replaced with Trump’s Supreme-Court-Endorsed policy of “I’ll do what I want, because fuck you that’s why.”. Stephen Miller literally said as much when he told California’s governor that “You have no say in this. Federal law will be enforced”, and openly dared him to do something about it.