Katanji Insults Clarence Thomas

Jackson invokes slavery to rebuke Thomas in heated birthright citizenship clash

The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship in a divided ruling on June 30, with the real fireworks coming not from the majority opinion but from a bitter exchange between Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson (DEI hire) and Clarence Thomas, two of only three Black justices ever to serve on the Court.

Jackson used her concurring opinion to accuse Thomas by name of trying to repurpose the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause into a narrow, race-specific remedy rather than a broad constitutional guarantee.

Thomas, in a 91-page dissent joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, fired back that the majority had "devalued" American citizenship by extending it to what he called "the children of all foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens."

The 6-3 decision affirmed that children born on U.S. soil to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens under the 14th Amendment. Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion, joined by Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and the Court's three liberal justices, as Just The News reported.

The ruling struck down a 2025 executive order directing federal agencies to deny birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants.

In Thomas's view, a constitutional provision written to guarantee that freed Black Americans could never again be stripped of their citizenship has been stretched to cover a situation its framers never contemplated, automatic citizenship for children born to people who entered the country illegally or on temporary visas.

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Years from now, this ruling will be over-turned as did Roe v. Wade.