GEOPOLITICS | Wydra Says Domicile Isn’t a Real Argument for Citizenship After Supreme Court Birthright Ruling

A divided US Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right of birthright citizenship, rejecting US President Donald Trump’s planned restrictions and invalidating a central plank of his immigration agenda, according to Bloomberg. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented. In his dissent, Thomas wrote that national citizenship was “derivative of state citizenship” and that national citizenship required domicile because state citizenship required domicile. Elizabeth Wydra, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, discussed the decision on Balance of Power.