So Much for Originalism
A News Link Round-Up
Here is the latest weekly round-up of links, with updates on three important Supreme Court rulings, freedom of speech, the “dirtbag” left, God leaving the Bible Belt, technological non-unemployment, and the usual good news.
A reminder about this News Link Round-Up format: The main headlines are there to provide context and perhaps a little commentary, the headlines with the links are the original headlines from the articles, and the quotations beneath are extracts from the articles.
“Originalism” Survives by the Skin of Its Teeth
Supreme Court Upholds Principle that Almost All Born on US Soil Are American
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion for the ideologically mixed group of justices that included the court’s three liberals, as well as conservative Amy Coney Barrett.
Conservative Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh dissented from the 5-4 majority in ruling the executive order violated the 14th Amendment, but he joined the 6-3 majority in finding the order violated federal law….
The opinion came over the objections of conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch and Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Alito wrote a dissent, while Thomas wrote an opinion that Gorsuch joined.
About 250,000 children would have been born without citizenship in the US each year under Trump’s order, or roughly 5 million by 2045, according to a friend-of-the-court brief filed by dozens of professors. Some would probably have been left stateless because their parents would be unwilling or unable to obtain citizenship for their children in their homelands.
The professors argued that Trump’s order would create a permanent underclass.
