Jackson criticized her fellow justice’s “ahistorical” interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
Echoing the Trump administration’s sentiments, Thomas argued in his dissent that the 14th Amendment “was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support.”
Thomas also argued that the Civil Rights Act, which became the foundation for the 14th Amendment, had ensured citizenship to people born in the U.S. and “not subject to any foreign power.”
“The Citizenship Clause [of the 14th Amendment], which the same Congress passed shortly after the Civil Rights Act, was understood to have the same meaning,” Thomas wrote. “It guaranteed citizenship to persons who were both ‘born . . . in the United States’ and ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.’”
Jackson called this “ahistorical,” denying that the “text at issue conferred citizenship only on freed Blacks and those in analogous situations.”
Jackson also blamed the Trump administration and Thomas for repurposing the amendment, adding that the Civil Rights Act initially only included Black people but was later expanded to include people of all ethnic backgrounds.
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So now the country will go back to being kind of functional, right?
For now. We’ve established that SC Justices are allowed to make decisions totally disregarding the text of the constitution. It’s only a matter of time before Mississippi decides to send catholics to prison, and some future SC decides that that’s fine because the founding fathers would have wanted everyone to be evangelical.
Justice Ruckus.
Bro. I’m fucking DYING at this. Gonna rewatch the MLK episode of Boondocks and shit my pants laughing at uncle SCOTUS.
Uncle Tom mfer is thr blackest white supremacist in the US.
Clayton Bigsby is proud of Uncle Clarence
How can a man in his position be so wrong about every goddamn issue?
The guy that put his pubes on a can of coke and then gave it to one of his interns?
The issue is, while you and I would spend money on a lawyer to attempt to get a favorable outcome in court, someone with a lot of money will spend it on a motorhome for the judge deciding the case.
Epstein class and nazi bribery. Can’t you see the cuckoldry in his eyes, they grabbed em by the greed. What’s he gonna do now, give up his ill gotten gains and admit he’s a sockpuppet proxy for evil assholes.
Never known a sellout to change their ways. It’s just one of those lines you cross and never see again
I didn’t realize that there was no constitutional right to birthright citizenship before the Civil War. TIL
Apparently, every state had its own laws and standards about who was a citizen, although there were a few congressional acts that established a basic framework.
It seems wild to me that we started a whole country and we didn’t even figure out who was a member of it.
Keep in mind that the US was originally structured more like the EU. We spent about a century slowly shifting from a collection of nation states in an alliance to one big nation state.
Well it used to be much harder to have identifying documents. So if you were in the country, you were part of the country.
That’s why there was so much emphasis on Landowners. Owning land required some form of government documentation, like a Deed. Beyond that, there were no Drivers Licenses, Social Security Cards, Student IDs, Work IDs, etc.
A country of immigrants, no less.
Hey now sometimes you need to filter for the right immigrants, like can you imagine the absolute chaos that a Brandenburger could cause.
I don’t know the point of this joke, just kinda felt like bashing the Prussians.
Who is this “we”? I’m an American. None of my ancestors were there when white people claimed this land theirs.
“We” is used in a lot of ways. We, as a nation; we, as a civilization; we, as a species. The Royal “we.”
Weird of you to assume I meant “we as a race.” I’m not even white.
Are Native Americans included in your ‘we’? Are Black Americans included in your ‘we’? Are Mexican Americans included in your ‘we’? Who is the ‘we’ in ‘we started a whole country and we didn’t even figure out who was a member of it’
Here’s how I would phrase it: I think the Europeans who wrote the constitution and declaration of independence are idiots and shouldn’t be making nations, because they can’t seem to figure their shit out.
See the difference?
The difference between what you are saying and what the other person is saying is that you take no responsibility for anything, saying everything bad is because of someone else. The other person is including themselves, even though they never voted on shit 200 years ago, as part of the problem. You’re like one of those people who complain about who is President and what stupid things Congress is doing… but you were too lazy or too apathetic to actually vote.
By your idiotic definition, nobody alive today is “we.”
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You sound exhausting. Have you ever tried not being quite so insufferable?
Don’t care.
American law continues to be built on “oh we forgot to make that a law” and “oh we didn’t think that would matter”.
It’s time to reduce Thomas’ vote on the SCOTUS to 3/5ths.
The funny thing is, given the aims he’s working towards, that’s basically where it’s all going anyway
Wake me up when they literally rip him in half.
“How can it be that black people are free?”
As spoken by the one judge who could care less…
Uncle Tom bitchass. I hope he crashes his god awful motorhome
After attending the Supreme Court hearing earlier this year, Trump falsely claimed in a Truth Social post that the U.S. is “the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!”
This is such a stupid and easily disproved take. I’ve had relatives claim to me that the US is the only country with birthright citizenship. It’s very common in the Americas.
And even if it wasn’t, and the US was the only country with birthright citizenship, isn’t that our choice as a nation? Do we have to do what other countries do? If we’re going to do that, can we start with universal healthcare and then revisit birthright citizenship after, say, better protections for unions, guaranteed parental leave, guaranteed vacation time, unlimited sick time, higher taxes on the wealthy, abolition of at-will employment, and about 100 other policies the US is the only wealthy nation either not to have or to have a legal framework against?
Birthright doesn’t make sense anymore. It did when traveling was a long process but now that you can fly around the world drop a baby and be back home the next day. It doesn’t make sense. My country has a issue with baby vacations.
None of you weirdo ethnonationalists have ever proven that anchor babies are a real issue that actually impact the economy at scale.
It’s just another emotion-driven feint to drive attention away from the robber barons.
Please enlighten us with what issues your country has with baby vacations.
What’s the issue exactly? Countries are freaking out over their decreasing birth rates. Allowing more children to be born here with citizenship seems like a great solution to that.
Yea those people are infesting our good lands!
What is the issue exactly?
There are 35 countries that provide citizenship unconditionally to anyone born within their national borders.
Justice Thomas is evil he had his newphew falsely imprisoned at hidden lake academy one of troubled teen programs and this one of old school programs based on synanon methods. bbc link
Justice Thomas is evil he had his newphew falsely imprisoned at hidden lake academy one of troubled teen programs and this one of old school programs based on synanon methods.
Is that one long sentence, or is that a few sentences with no pause in-between?
Clarence ‘I Got Mine’ Thomas
Clarence “an rv is price enough to destroy America” Thomas
If that was the case, he would have taken Oliver’s offer. He must just really like destroying America. So much so that he passed up an RV and a million a year just to fuck off.
The only appropriate use of the n-word. Dude needs a good old fashioned lynching to be reminded of where he’s bringing us back to.
Only half joking. But he somewhat deserves it. He’s cheering on the return of Jim Crow.
eh, idk about that…but he’s definitely an uncle tom
As yes, because racial violence is okay when it’s “ironic” or something… I’m all for curb stomping racists of all flavors, but cmon dude no need to go all Klansman.
Ne’er-do-well?
DJ Trump IS Jim Crow!
Donald Jim-Crow Trump.
