Latest / Systemic Error Podcast
Justice Jackson delivers 'blistering' legal smackdown of Clarence Thomas’ dissent
The Court Kept Birthright Citizenship. The Damage Came From the Dissent.Power, Not PerformanceThe immediate institutional power in this story sits where it always sits: with the Supreme Court majority that rejected Trump’s birthright citizenship order. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion. That is the hard fact. The Constitution, for the moment, held.But the more revealing power is in the dissenting machinery around the Court: Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, used the case to press a narrower, more evasive reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. That is…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.