supreme court birthright citizenship - (update: closing)

[orleans]

https://archive.is/ivPvX

live updates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/01/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump-live-updates/

from wapo 1 hr ago:

ACLU Legal Director Cecillia Wang said the 14th Amendment does not allow Congress to add more exceptions to the birthright citizenship rule.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh replied: “I guess the answer you just gave means they don’t have any authority to look at this, even if they passed it 435 to 0 in the House and 100 to 0 in the Senate. Your point is, no, they’re closed. They’re frozen forever.”

“Correct,” Wang said.

and 1 hr ago:

Arguments concluded after Solicitor General D. John Sauer made his rebuttal.

Congress “in 1866 had a very, very clear understanding that the children of the newly freed slaves have the requisite allegiance to the United States,” he said in his closing remarks. “This was all about overruling the grave injustice of Dred Scott and making sure that allegiance was granted to the children of slaves.”

“Thank you, counsel, general. The case is submitted,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said, as he does when arguments end in every case.