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.

Jackson accuses Clarence Thomas of Intellectual inconsistency

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

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Justice Kagan rebukes fellow liberal Jackson in footnote over free speech ruling on Colorado conversion therapy ban

Justice Elena Kagan sided with seven colleagues to strike down Colorado's ban on so-called conversion therapy for minors, then used a footnote in her concurrence to take apart the reasoning of the lone holdout, fellow liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The 8-1 decision, handed down Tuesday, found that Colorado's 2019 law restricting what licensed therapists could say to minor clients amounted to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination under the First Amendment.

The ruling is a landmark win for religious liberty and free speech. But the sharper story may be what happened inside the Court's liberal wing, where Kagan and Justice Sonia Sotomayor broke from Jackson and joined the conservative majority, then went out of their way to explain why Jackson's dissent didn't hold together.

That kind of public correction between ideological allies is rare. It signals that Jackson's position, that states can regulate therapists' speech as mere "professional conduct", failed to persuade even the justices most sympathetic to her worldview.

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