‘Gobsmacking’ Supreme Court opinions raise a troubling set of problems: analysis

Kavanaugh—were prepared to uphold a radically counter-textual reading of the plain text of the 14th Amendment to exclude from citizenship children born here to parents who were in the country illegally or only temporarily,” he wrote.

“Justice Thomas’s principal dissent in Trump v. Barbara—joined by Justice Gorsuch—rests on a discredited method: original-intent continue reading …