In dissents released today, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito slammed the historical illiteracy of Chief Justice John Roberts in imposing a “medieval English ‘feudal’ principle” on the American people, allowing any foreigner to become a citizen simply by being born on American soil.
In his majority opinion for the court, Roberts strained to reimpose a form of feudalism soundly rejected by the American Founding. That legal principle guarantees random foreigners the privilege of American citizenship through an English common law basis that the Founders rejected. Feudalism reflected a king-subject relationship based on soil, and the Roberts court’s reasoning imposed that alien tradition — that persons are subjects, not citizens — on the United States.
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