The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship in a 6-3 ruling that cracked open a fault line among the court’s conservative justices, and left the door ajar for Congress to act where the executive branch could not.
The decision in Trump v. Barbara ran 194 pages. It produced a five-justice constitutional majority, a narrow concurrence that broke from that reasoning, a 91-page principal dissent, a separate 39-page dissent, and a three-page solo dissent. The sheer volume of ink tells the story: this was not a case the court resolved easily, and the fractures it revealed run deeper than one executive order.
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