Carrie Johnson
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143 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Carrie Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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John Roberts said the 14th Amendment was the last word there.
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It meant what it said.
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And that meant that this effort by the Trump administration, a very aggressive effort to try to redefine who counts as an American, was not passing muster with this court majority.
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You know, it's a little bit nuanced.
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Let's start with Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee.
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Kavanaugh actually agreed that in this case, people challenging Trump's executive order should win.
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But he thought they should win not on the basis of the Constitution, the 14th Amendment, but a far more narrow ground.
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The idea that Congress in 1940 and 1952 passed.
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passed statutes basically codifying some of what the 14th Amendment had to say into American law.
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And those statutes were enough for the court to decide that the executive order was not valid.
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In fact, Justice Kavanaugh said because he would decide on the basis of those laws, that meant that Congress could go back and amend the law or pass new laws to try to
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prohibit the babies of people in the country illegally or on work or school visas from becoming citizens.
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And then the other dissenters were more aggressive, I'll say.
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Justice Clarence Thomas said the majority basically misunderstood what the 14th Amendment was about and what they said.
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Justice Samuel Alito said this is one of the most important decisions in the history of this court, and the court has made a serious mistake.
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Justice Alito spent a lot of time talking about
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what he called the problem of birth tourism.
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This is something President Trump has been talking about, too.
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Trump is worried about wealthy people from overseas, like Chinese billionaires, coming to the U.S., having their babies on American soil and those babies becoming American.
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We don't have data on that, but it certainly was something that Justice Alito was concerned about.
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