Clarence Thomas on SCOTUS Ruling: 14th Amendment Has Been ‘Repurposed for Political Projects’

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the principal dissenting opinion in Trump v. Barbara, where the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order barring birthright American citizenship for the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens and temporary visa holders is a violation of the 14th Amendment. In his dissenting opinion, Thomas writes that “both the Civil Rights Act and the Citizenship Clause guaranteed citizenship to persons born and domiciled in the United States regardless of their race.” “Neither guaranteed citizenship to persons who were not domiciled in the United States,” Thomas writes: Blacks were...