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I criticize Supreme Court precedents from the current Court publicly only on limited occasions.

But this story presents a need to do that which I cannot let pass.

The majority held that birthright citizenship is hard-wired into the Fourteenth Amendment.

I don’t believe that… pic.twitter.com/56VsoOHugD

— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) September 28, 2026

I criticize Supreme Court precedents from the current Court publicly only on limited occasions.

But this story presents a need to do that which I cannot let pass.

The majority held that birthright citizenship is hard-wired into the Fourteenth Amendment.

I don’t believe that for a second. In our modern context of massive illegal immigration and our greatest rival sending its women to the U.S. or other U.S.-controlled areas to have their babies and claim citizenship and U.S. passports, I firmly believe the English using common law would have easily and firmly rejected birth tourism in any analogous situation.

Just imagine a hypothetical where Spain or France were considering invasions of England and in a possible lead up to that, mass numbers of French or Spanish were traveling to England to become subjects of the crown and then to on to possibly become spies.

It never would have been tolerated. Yet our 2026 Supreme Court majority essentially interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to be a national and sovereignty-destroying suicide pact.

Taking a trip to Saipan to give birth should not turn Chinese citizen babies into U.S. citizens too. It’s madness. Pure madness.