Cecillia (Cecilia) Wang
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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So the president is taking aim at certain immigrants who are part of our American communities, our friends and neighbors and relatives.
But really, he's targeting something far more
fundamental and something that reaches into every corner of American life.
The birthright citizenship executive order was part of President Trump's attack on the Reconstruction Constitution and the Second Reconstruction, which was the civil rights movement's legislative wins.
And so when the president took aim at the 14th Amendment's first sentence, he was really fighting uphill.
against the history, against the framers, the entire purpose of the framers.
As Justice Jackson said in her concurring opinion today, the 14th Amendment is a repudiation of caste distinctions in American life.
And the president was trying to reinstitute those caste distinctions that it took a civil war to eliminate.
And luckily, he was unsuccessful with the Supreme Court reaffirming their decision from 1898
and saying, once again, birthright citizenship belongs to all of us.
We have six out of the nine justices, including two Trump appointees, Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Barrett,
who joined the chief justice along with the liberal justices in striking down the president's executive order.
Justice Kavanaugh writes his concurring opinion, concurring in the judgment, which nobody else joins.
And he says he doesn't believe that the executive order violates the Constitution because he doesn't believe that he believes that the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause can change over time.
which is deeply contrary to what the majority of the court has done recently with respect to other constitutional provisions.
Right, so let's put a pin in that.
At the end of the day, Justice Kavanaugh says, look, Congress passed a statute at first in 1940, and then again, reaffirming that and reenacting this citizenship law.
And at the time Congress enacted that statute,
Everyone agreed that the 14th Amendment extended to everyone, except for these really narrow English common law exceptions.
And so Kavanaugh says, look, the executive order needs to be struck down under the statute.
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