Thoughts On The Supreme Court's Decision On Birthright Citizenship

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​Thoughts On The Supreme Court's Decision On Birthright Citizenship

      Today the Supreme Court of the United States of America handed down a decision on a case that the Supreme Court of United States of America should never have taken in the first place: that of whether the President of the United States has the power to delete our Constitutional rights by simply issuing an executive order. 
      The Constitutional right in question was that bestowed upon us by the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment, also known as the Citizenship Clause, which states:
     All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
        And the President in question who sought to cancel out this inherent principle of our democracy with a quick stroke of his pen was...who else?

        Now, in pondering why the Supreme Court agreed back in November of 2025 to hear this case that had previously been unequivocally struck down by lower courts, at first I thought, well, mayhaps a Trump-weary SCOTUS intended to hear the case, hand down a final ruling on the subject and shut up the face of Donald Trump about it once and for all. I mean, of course the Supreme Court wouldn't overrule the Fourteenth Amendment?
        But then the Court's conservative majority, which has been fulfilling one after another of Trump's desires on his anti-immigrant wish list, just a few days ago gifted  him with several especially cruel immigration rulings, among them one allowing Trump to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian refugees and another allowing his administration to turn away asylum seekers at our southern border.
     This made me wonder: If Trump's hand-picked justices were cold-blooded enough to hand down what was in effect a death sentence to hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian refugees and deny the right of human beings to seek asylum, a right that is a tenet of international law and dates back to ancient times, might not these same justices be jaded enough to allow Donald Trump to mutilate our Constitution and cause cataclysmic upheaval to our social order?
        But then, today  the Supreme Court handed down their decision to uphold our Fourteenth Amendment and reject Donald Trump's ploy to abolish it. Which felt like wonderful news until it sunk in that the verdict to keep our Constitution intact  passed not unanimously or even nearly unanimously, but by a single vote, five to four.

       Had just one more justice favored Trump with their vote, then those five could have thrown our constitution and our country into a crisis. Which makes today's ruling feel less a cause for celebration than a warning that our country is hanging under the sword of Damocles. 

References:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-meets-to-weigh-trumps-birthright-citizenship-restrictions-blocked-by-lower-courts

https://news.lee.net/news/nation-world/government-politics/on-immigration-supreme-court-accedes-to-trumps-restrictive-agenda/article_7805bb97-1824-585d-b255-6139bd87ad12.html

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump-immigration-c73cf0c70bb550ebf0a55fafddbd935c