In a move that threatens to spark chaos throughout the country, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday partially blocked a series of nationwide injunctions on President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.
The ruling was 6-3 and with fierce dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote Friday’s opinion.
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship,” Sotomayor wrote, adding that “with the stroke of a pen, the President has made a solemn mockery of our Constitution.”
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