Society / The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a 5-Alarm Catastrophe In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.
The legal upshot of the Supreme Court’s monumentally disastrous decision in Trump v. CASA (more commonly known as “the birthright citizenship case”) is chaos.
With the legal sleight of hand so beloved by the Roberts court, the ruling doesn’t actually allow Trump to end birthright citizenship.
It just makes it incredibly difficult for courts to stop him from ending birthright citizenship.
Once you read the fine print, it becomes clear that this decision is a historic, five-alarm catastrophe.
The decision means that some courts, districts, and states will still defend the concept of birthright citizenship, while others will not.
It’s fashionable to say that the court’s ruling is not really about birthright citizenship, because the legal question focused on the power to issue nationwide injunctions. »