The United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday in Trump v. Barbara — and the American Left is having a full-blown psychiatric episode over the possibility that six justices might actually read the 14th Amendment out loud and notice it doesn’t mention illegal aliens anywhere.
Somebody get the ACLU a fainting couch and a glass of warm milk. This is going to be a brutal week for the open-borders crowd.
President Trump signed Executive Order 14,160 on his very first day back in office, declaring that babies born to illegal aliens on American soil don’t automatically get the golden ticket of U.S. citizenship. Democrats sued before the ink was dry, because that’s what Democrats do. They don’t win elections anymore, so they shop for judges instead.
Every lower court that touched the case sided with the challengers and blocked the order. Now the Supreme Court — the one with a 6-3 conservative majority that keeps Democrats tossing and turning at three in the morning — gets its turn.
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 for one reason and one reason only: to guarantee citizenship to the children of freed slaves. That’s it. President Trump nailed it when he said, “Birthright citizenship is about the babies of slaves. It had to do with Civil War results.”
Nobody in 1868 was sitting around the Capitol thinking, “You know what we should also do? Make sure that if a pregnant woman sneaks across the Rio Grande in her third trimester, her baby gets a Social Security number and in-state tuition.” But that’s exactly what Democrats have spent the last century and change pretending the amendment means.
Roughly a quarter million babies a year are born to mothers who have zero legal right to be in this country. Each one of those births is a jackpot baby — an anchor that chains an entire extended family to American taxpayer-funded benefits. Housing, food stamps, Medicaid, public schools, the whole buffet. Democrats call this “our values.” The rest of us call it an invasion with a nursery.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer went straight for the throat in his brief. He argued that “birthright citizenship for children of illegal and transient aliens degrades the meaning and value of American citizenship” and compared the case to Brown v. Board of Education.
Liberal legal “scholars” nearly had a collective aneurysm when they read that comparison. Which tells you Sauer is right over the target.
Now here’s where Democrats get really slimy — and give them credit, these weasels are good at what they do. The ACLU filed their class-action lawsuit on the exact same day the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. CASA that district courts can’t hand out nationwide injunctions anymore. Same day! They designed the class action to work “as wide and comprehensive in scope as a nationwide injunction” because if you can’t ram through the front door, just slap a different label on it and crawl through the window.
The Democrats’ legal machine has been pulling stunts like this for decades and they’re not even embarrassed about it anymore.
The lead plaintiff hides behind the fake name “Barbara.” Another plaintiff — an Argentine national — talked to reporters only on the condition of anonymity because her lawyers were terrified of “possible retribution by the Republican administration.”
Retribution? For being in the country illegally? Sweetheart, that’s not retribution. That’s called enforcing the law. Look into it sometime.
Trump blasted the lower court judges who blocked his order, writing on Truth Social: “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!” One of those judges, John Coughenour, puffed out his chest and declared he’d been on the bench for four decades and had never seen a case this “clear.”
Four decades of rubber-stamping the same wrong answer doesn’t make you a constitutional genius, Your Honor. It makes you a bureaucrat in a robe.
The Left’s most desperate play involves shrieking that the Trump administration cited writings from one Alexander Porter Morse, whom they breathlessly describe as a “Confederate officer” and segregation advocate. Classic Democrat playbook — they can’t win on the actual legal argument, so they play guilt-by-association with a guy who’s been dead for over a century.
Meanwhile, their precious 14th Amendment was passed by Republicans over the howling objections of Democrats who literally owned human beings. We could play this little history game all day, folks. Democrats never win it.
More than 200 Democratic members of Congress filed a brief against Trump’s order. Forty-two amici briefs piled on for the challengers — the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, 19 labor unions, and the whole usual parade of left-wing institutional muscle that shows up every time a Democrat priority is on the chopping block. Only 18 amici backed Trump.
That’s how the Democrat racket works. They flood the zone with institutional weight and then act stunned when the justices read the actual text of the Constitution instead of counting how many briefs each side filed.
A decision drops in late June. If the Court sides with Trump — and we think they will — Democrats will wail that democracy itself has perished. (They scream that every single time they lose anything. You could beat a Democrat at checkers and they’d call it a constitutional crisis.) If the Court somehow chokes and sides with the ACLU, we’ll know that even a conservative supermajority can buckle when the establishment cranks the pressure up to eleven.
We’ve spent generations letting Democrats twist a post-Civil War amendment into an open-borders baby factory, and 75 million of us voted for the guy who finally said “enough.” Wednesday is when we find out if the Supreme Court has the spine to agree with us.
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