Birthright Citizenship Under Fire | Salt Lake City News

Salt Lake City News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 2, 2026 · 1m

Senator Mike Lee unleashes fiery rhetoric calling birthright citizenship “suicidal,” challenging the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that upholds automatic citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. under the Fourteenth Amendment — a landmark post-Civil War guarantee meant to secure rights for formerly enslaved people. Chief Justice Roberts defends the decision, framing citizenship as the right to participate in democracy, a promise the framers extended to all free-born individuals. Lee, however, argues the amendment wasn’t meant as a “suicide pact” and warns unrestricted birthright citizenship poses…