{"id":3155,"date":"2026-06-30T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:39:36","slug":"hell-and-fury-narrowly-avoided-as-supreme-court-says-no-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=3155","title":{"rendered":"Hell and fury narrowly avoided as Supreme Court says no to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For one day, at least, the Constitution held, and in the chaotic and disjointed time we are living in, and where we hold our breath awaiting the rulings of an overtly bigoted Supreme Court, that is saying an awful lot.<\/p>\n

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The court today struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to strip birthright citizenship from children born on U.S. soil<\/u> to undocumented or non-permanent-resident parents. In doing so, it reaffirmed one of the oldest and most sacred guarantees in American life: if you are born here, you are an American. <\/p>\n

No exceptions for the status of your parents, no second-class tier of citizenship invented by a president acting alone. It is a relief, and it should not have been in doubt, and because it was, it was an example of how far our open democracy has closed up.<\/p>\n

What we have retained today<\/u> is an America where hundreds of thousands of U.S.-born children are instantly granted automatic citizenship, securely integrated into their communities with full social services, education, and employment rights, and where their families achieve permanent status without facing the threat of arbitrary deportation.<\/p>\n

We have avoided a system where birth certificates require complex parental status checks and state health departments are forced to act as immigration enforcers. It would have created<\/u> a disenfranchised subclass.<\/p>\n

In other words, if SCOTUS had acquiesced to Trump, all hell and fury would have broken loose, and the 14th Amendment shredded to pieces.<\/p>\n

The 14th Amendment <\/u>wasn’t an accident or a loophole or an afterthought. It was written in the wake of the Civil War, specifically to overturn Dred Scott<\/u> and guarantee, in plain language, that anyone born here belonged here, regardless of what their parents had been forced to endure, regardless of where their bloodline started.<\/p>\n

For a century and a half, that promise has held. The Supreme Court itself affirmed it in 1898 in , ruling that a man born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrant parents, parents who could not even become citizens themselves under the racist laws of the era, was as American as anyone else in this country by virtue of his birth alone.<\/p>\n

Today’s ruling holds that line. A child’s legal status belongs to them alone, entirely free from the politics, status, or actions of their parents. A baby born in a Texas hospital is an American citizen by right, not by the permission of whoever happens to occupy the White House or a court that is chock-full of narrow-minded conservatives.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s executive order was so bad that in early 2025, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle blocked the policy<\/u>, slamming it as “blatantly unconstitutional.” The Reagan-appointed judge used scathing language, stating that in his four decades on the bench, he had never seen such a clear violation of law. Rebuking the executive overreach, Coughenour declared, “to our president the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals,” warning that history judges harshly when the legal system fails to stand up to unlawful actions.<\/p>\n

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The children of immigrants, including immigrants who arrived undocumented or with nothing but hope, have become some of the people who define what America is. They have shaped and bolstered our economy.<\/u><\/p>\n

This country’s culture, science, economy and even its politics were built in no small part by Americans whose parents came here without papers, without money, and without permission, and whose children were citizens anyway because the Constitution said so.<\/p>\n

Today’s ruling means that story continues. It means the next generation of doctors, engineers, athletes, and artists born in this country will still get to claim it as their own by right of birth, the same as every generation before them.<\/p>\n

The ruling is also a reminder that the Constitution cannot be rewritten by executive order, no matter how forcefully Trump and his ill-advised ilk wishes it could. It confirms what that judge in Seattle, and really what a century and a half of precedent had already found, that the 14th Amendment means what it says, and no president gets to amend it unilaterally.<\/p>\n

That matters beyond this single case. It comes against the backdrop of an administration and a Supreme Court that has also moved to strip Temporary Protected Status<\/u> from Haitian and Syrian nationals and taken a death-knell<\/u> posture toward asylum seekers at the southern border. <\/p>\n

Today’s ruling doesn’t undo those horrific policies, but it draws a clear line the administration cannot cross, explicitly saying that birthright citizenship is no one\u2019s to revoke.<\/p>\n

The fight over who belongs in this country is far from over, and this ruling will not be the last word on immigration policy under this administration. In all probability, this ruling today might be a one-off, and that\u2019s the tragedy of it all.<\/p>\n

But for today, the Constitution’s plainest, oldest promise to the children born on this soil remains intact. That’s worth marking, celebrating, and worth defending the next time it’s tested.<\/p>\n

Read more Five sharpest barbs in new Supreme Court ruling as the justices turn on each other<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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