Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson admonished fellow Justice Clarence Thomas for his dissent to the high court’s decision upholding birthright citizenship on Tuesday. In a 20-page concurring opinion, Jackson accused Thomas of applying a “narrow vision” of the 14th Amendment in dissenting from the six-justice majority. “Despite his longstanding endorsement of a ‘colorblind’ Constitution, Justice…
The Supreme Court gutted one of President Trump's signature policies, rejecting his effort to end birthright citizenship. Jan Crawford has more details.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that transgender language is a “lie to the public” in a Tuesday opinion, concurring with a ruling that blocks athletes who were assigned to the male sex at birth from competing against biological women. “Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe…
President calls ruling ‘too bad for our Country’ but says Congress should ‘start today’ to end matter – key US politics stories from Tuesday, 30 June at a glanceThe US supreme court has upheld birthright citizenship, which provides nearly all people born in the country with citizenship, ruling against a central piece of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.Trump called the ruling “too bad for our Country”, but said the US Congress should now take up the matter legislatively, suggesting another avenue to keep the issue alive. Continue reading...
On the early edition of Balance of Power, Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz discuss the end of the Supreme Court's latest term. On today's show, Stonecourt Capital Partner Rick Davis, Maywood Strategies Founder Doug Farrar, former FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter and Kpler Head of Policy and Geopolitical Risk Michelle Brouhard. (Source: Bloomberg)
Republican-appointed Justice Clarence Thomas tore into transgenderism as a "lie to the public" in his concurrence on the Supreme Court's decision to uphold state-level policies restricting girls' sports to biological females.
Congress is not powerless to stop the worst aspects of birthright citizenship.
Legal analyst Lisa Rubin characterized Justice Clarence Thomas' birthright citizenship dissent as "disappointing" during an MS NOW discussion following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling upholding birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara. Rubin said Thomas was "picking up a thread that Solicitor General John Sauer left for him" and "taking the bait" by drawing a distinction between Black Americans and children of "foreign temporary visitors." In his dissent, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, Thomas argued the 14th Amendment was written to confer citizenship on enslaved people's children, not temporary visitors' children, citing the Dred Scott decision and quoting Frederick Douglass. Rubin predicted the distinction would not resonate with civil rights advocates, noting, large swaths of the civil rights movement will not accept this argument given decades of shared organizing between the NAACP and immigrant rights groups. Chief Justice Roberts authored the majority opinion, joined by three liberal justices and Justice Amy Coney Barrett.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
Justice Clarence Thomas shredded the Supreme Court‘s ruling striking down President Donald Trump‘s birthright citizenship order on Tuesday, accusing the majority ruling of using an “alternative history” of the 14th Amendment and expressing dismay over how it “devalues” citizenship. The high court ruled 5-4 that the 14th Amendment provides citizenship to children born in the […]