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The Supreme Court handed over a win to the Trump Administration today in Trump v CASA Inc., ruling against nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship case.
The Court made it clear that it did not address the question of whether Trump's Executive Order violates the Citizenship Clause or Nationality Act.
President Trump, pleased with the ruling, explained that birthright citizenship "was meant for the babies of slaves."
"It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation," Trump said. "It's so clean and so obvious."
But that certainly wasn't the mood in the press conference with Attorneys General from Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, California, and Massachusetts.
Several Attorneys General complained that Trump's Executive Order was one of the most "blatantly unconstitutional" orders since the Civil War, and strongly disagreed with the SCOTUS ruling, calling it a "disappointing result."
Connecticut Attorney General Tong issued a statement, saying, "there is an injunction in place in Connecticut right now, and a continuation of the nationwide pause everywhere for the next 30 days that preserves birthright citizenship and protects Connecticut families."
Then he complained about the "deeply disappointing decision" which he described as "a massive punt by the Supreme Court that creates needless chaos for families and babies across the country, and is a troubling signal of even worse to come from this court."
Tong asserted there is absolutely "no legitimate legal debate" when it comes to interpreting the meaning of the 14th Amendment. "If you are born on American soil, you are an American," said Tong -- even if you are here illegally, as far as Tong is concerned.
He was upset that babies born to illegals in places like Texas or Florida could potentially "have different citizenship rights" than those born in sanctuary states like Connecticut.
"What we have is an unworkable mess that will leave thousands of babies in an untenable legal limbo," claimed Tong. "Will babies born in Connecticut have different citizenship rights than those born in Texas or Florida? What of babies born in Connecticut who travel outside our state?"
Tong promised to the fight is "far from over" and said he will continue to press the case.
The Supreme Court has not yet considered the full merits of the case. Today's decision considered the legality of whether individual district courts could impose a nationwide injunction in this case. The 6-3 decision strikes down that nationwide injunction and sends the question back to the lower court to re-determine the scope of the injunction.
Tong views this fight as a personal battle, especially considering his father overstayed his tourist visa and was almost deported.
"My dad, like a lot of people had a complicated immigration history and if this happened to us today, people would call him undocumented. They would say he's illegal," Tong explained in November 2024, which is exactly why he fights so hard for other illegals today.
If only he fought that hard for the legitimate citizens of the state of Connecticut.
Click here to view Connecticut’s lawsuit, and here to view the Supreme Court brief.
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"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, "
Tong conveniently ignores the "subject to the jurisdiction" part, which means the same thing as the "natural born" language elsewhere in the Constitution. It means that at least one of your parents must be an American citizen. American Indians were all born in America but were unaffected by this and were not given citizenship until 1913,
If his father overstayed his tourist visa, he should have been deported and never allowed to return.
He's supposed to be a lawyer, not a legal activist, looking for ways around the law because he doesn't like it.
so this guy is just trying to save his own bacon.
I get so tired of this invasion.
it's time to put a stop to this.
let them come legally and not finagle their way into legality by just staying here and having children.
A thief enters your house to live there and has a child. is that child now your family?
no.
it's the child of a thief and will be a thief as well.