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Clarence Thomas' 'astonishing' birthright citizenship dissent leaves MS NOW aghast
Thomas Reaches for History, and Grabs for a Racial DivideThe ruling was simpleThe Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a 6-3 decision and struck down Trump’s executive order. That is the core fact. Everything else in the dissent is an attempt to relitigate settled constitutional meaning by dressing hostility in the costume of legal scholarship.Who actually movedThe institutional power here sat with the Court’s majority, led by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by the three liberal justices and Justice Amy Coney Barrett. But the political force behind the fight was Donald Trump…
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