Trump Tried to Delete Birthright Citizenship and SCOTUS Hit Him With Nah

A former president just tried to swipe-left an entire constitutional amendment like it’s a spam email, and the Supreme Court was basically like… sir, please sit down.

Trump’s team rolled up arguing they can end birthright citizenship — the whole “born here = citizen” thing — by executive action, because apparently the Constitution is now a Terms of Service nobody reads.

The 14th Amendment is pretty blunt: if you’re born in the U.S. and “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S., you’re a citizen. Team Trump wants the court to treat “subject to the jurisdiction” like a loophole you can drive an ICE bus through.

The justices sounded skeptical — not in a “we’re offended” way, more like in a “do you hear yourself” way. Because the legal pitch here is essentially: we don’t like what the amendment does, so we’d like a different amendment, but without all the democracy.

And don’t miss the incentive structure: stripping citizenship doesn’t “secure the border,” it creates a bigger, cheaper, more frightened underclass that can be threatened, underpaid, and used as a campaign prop every two years.

Meanwhile, regular people get another fun American experience where your rights depend on who won a news cycle in 2016.