Asha (Aysha) Bagchi
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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He tends to be someone who can float between two sides sometimes.
And then the three most conservative justices in the dissent.
So it wasn't too surprising.
And I can dig in a little into what the justices were actually saying.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, he talked about basically the history of citizenship in the United States.
He said, if you go back to the time of the country's founding, that we adopted an understanding of citizenship that came from English common law.
That's basically English law that judges create.
And the idea was that people who were born on the soil, not a matter of their blood, if they're born on the soil of a country, then they have citizenship.
And he said it was really in the time leading up to the Civil War that the Supreme Court started to contradict that principle.
It issued this infamous decision, Dred Scott, that essentially said Black people in the
And Chief Justice Roberts basically wrote that when the 14th Amendment was ratified, that was in 1868 after the Civil War, it was trying to repudiate that Dred Scott decision that he described as odious to say not just that Black people are citizens of the United States, but basically to go back to this idea that people are citizens because they're on this soil, that English common law idea, repudiate the whole idea of trying to undercut
the notion of citizenship by virtue of being born here.
And then when you look at the dissents from the court, they really made the argument that citizenship is more about complete allegiance to the country.
And they said that people whose parents didn't have the permanent right to be here
that their children didn't have that kind of complete allegiance.
And then Justice Thomas, one of the dissenters here, also basically said that, in his view, the 14th Amendment was essentially just addressing Black people in the country, saying that they were citizens in the wake of the Civil War and not trying to go further.
So this was really a dispute among the justices about understanding how far the victors, basically, of the Civil War
wanted to go and enshrining ideas about broad U.S.
citizenship.
These were parents that were impacted by Trump's order in different ways.
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