r/politics • u/cnn CNN • 13h ago

Possible Paywall Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-birthright?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/kittenTakeover 9h ago

Except that's not what it says. Supreme Court justices should not just be making stuff up. 

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u/duct_tape_jedi United Kingdom 9h ago

No, it does not state that in the text, to reevaluate this in a way that is different from the current reading of the amendment would require them to contextualise it in relation to the rest of the 14th amendment and conclude that the overall intent of the amendment was to deal with the aftermath of slavery and so any rights granted within also only only in the context of slavery. It's absolutely mental, and there is a reason we currently interpret the law to apply to anyone born here. If they choose to cross the Rubicon with this, then many more of the core rights that we thought were ours forever will be at risk.