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.
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
Uncle Tom bitchass. I hope he crashes his god awful motorhome
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
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.
American law continues to be built on “oh we forgot to make that a law” and “oh we didn’t think that would matter”.
A country of immigrants, no less.
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.
“How can it be that black people are free?”
As spoken by the one judge who could care less…
RiPpEd
So now the country will go back to being kind of functional, right?
