Supremes citizenship ruling: Letters to the Editor July 3, 2026

The cabal of liberals on the US Supreme Court — as well as the supposedly conservative Justices Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts — chose politics over strict interpretation of the Constitution in the court’s ruling on birthright citizenship (“Trump border battle defeat,” July 1).The 14th Amendment was written in plain English, and was meant to validate that former slaves and their descendants are American citizens.This is a sad day for America.Ron WassermanFreehold, NJWhat do you know: There are some things that the imperial president is not permitted to do, such as rewriting the Constitution.The Supreme Court has appropriately affirmed that the 14th Amendment, which provides birthright citizenship, means what it says, and the president has no right to disavow it.I imagine Trump has already vented his spleen by referring to the justices who ruled against him as “low-life scum” and “fools.” That’s how infantile people typically respond when they don’t get their way.Oren SpieglerPeters Township, Pa.The Supreme Court decision affirming birthright citizenship is the result of poor scholarship and ignorance of the historical facts of the 13th Amendment — created to correct the inequity of the Dred Scott decision — and the 14th Amendment, created to further clarify the intent of the 13th Amendment.The current court’s majority also ignored the contemporaneous writings of the legislatures stating their intent.

The much discussed phrase of the 14th Amendment, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” only needed the additional wording at the time to avoid the travesty of subsequent misinterpretation.Edwin DitlowRichboro, Pa.Sometimes, I wonder whether law schools do enough to encourage their students to think outside the box.Take the latest Supreme Court ruling, which deems any child born on American soil a US citizen, for example.

Where else in the world is this the case? A tourist arrives here, gives birth here, and that child is immediatel...