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Signed on his first day back in office, Donald Trump\u2019s executive order attempting to unilaterally dissolve the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s guarantee of automatic citizenship to virtually every child born on American soil perfectly exemplifies the core obsessions of his era\u2019s politics. It was flatly unconstitutional. Yet even before the Supreme Court narrowly upheld over 150 years of precedent in a 6-3 decision that blocked the bedrock of MAGA\u2019s nativist project on statutory grounds, <\/span>many in right-wing media cried foul<\/span>. Only a 5-4 majority found the doctrine to be constitutional.. To anyone operating within the bounds of reality, the Court\u2019s ruling was a troublingly close baseline affirmation of American law. But within the echo chamber of right-wing media, it was treated as an existential apocalypse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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While the right of birthright citizenship today is the same as it was yesterday\u00a0\u2014 and the same as it has been for generations \u2014 conservative media is, ironically, reframing the preservation of the status quo as a catastrophic loss. By soundly rejecting Trump\u2019s imperial decree, the Court did not end the assault on birthright citizenship. Instead, it handed right-wing media exactly what it wanted and so desperately needed: a permanent grievance engine. For 50 years, the conservative movement used Roe v. Wade to raise billions of dollars, discipline lawmakers and whip its base into a frenzy of perpetual victimization over abortion rights. Tuesday\u2019s ruling gives them a new Roe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For 50 years, the conservative movement used Roe v. Wade to raise billions of dollars, discipline lawmakers and whip its base into a frenzy of perpetual victimization over abortion rights. Tuesday\u2019s ruling gives them a new Roe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe fact that this case was a 5-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment \u2014 that concept is hanging by a thread,\u201d Vice President JD Vance <\/span>told<\/span> Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham. He went on to inform viewers that there is an opportunity to \u201creverse\u201d the Court\u2019s decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s arithmetic reveals the insidious long game the right is playing. Five justices \u2014\u00a0Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, along with the three liberals \u2014\u00a0upheld the constitutionality of the 14th Amendment\u2019s citizenship clause. While Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in the judgment to strike down the order, he did so by arguing that Trump\u2019s decree merely violated a federal statute \u2014 not the amendment itself \u2014 leaving the door wide open for Congress to change the law. He signaled that if Republicans can pass federal legislation restricting citizenship and flip Roberts or Barrett, they will have their five votes to dismantle the 14th Amendment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Far from settling the issue, the Court\u2019s ruling looks to have guaranteed that the right will become even more rabid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are already seeing the first salvos of this escalated warfare. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., immediately appeared on Fox News to <\/span>plug<\/span> his cynically named \u201cAnchors Away Act,\u201d a piece of legislation that would effectively ban pregnant foreigners from even entering the United States. Rather than distancing himself from such an authoritarian overreach, House Speaker Mike Johnson quickly announced that he was actively looking at the bill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Relentless media repetition has served to create the sense of perpetual siege the right uses to justify extreme positions that would have been unthinkable to voice out loud a decade ago. Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway, for example, <\/span>described<\/span> the ruling as \u201cthe worst case scenario on birthplace citizenship case. Apocalyptically and indefensibly bad.\u201d Her colleague at the Federalist, CEO Sean Davis, then <\/span>called<\/span> for the forced sterilization \u201cof all foreign visitors prior to entry.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Right-wing pundits have also <\/span>singled out<\/span> the only conservative woman on the court for <\/span>particular criticism<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAmy Coney Barrett is a turncoat,\u201d Megyn Kelly <\/span>said<\/span>. \u201cShe\u2019s constantly siding with the left. She\u2019s supposed to be one of ours.\u201d More broadly, the podcaster <\/span>complained<\/span> that the Court\u2019s conservative justices are \u201call too afraid of being called \u2018racist\u2019 to find accordingly.\u201d Kelly neglected to consider that they all enjoy lifetime appointments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Daily Wire\u2019s Matt Walsh, who previously hailed Trump\u2019s nomination of Barrett in 2020 as \u201ca bullet proof choice\u201d and claimed that \u201cif she had the same expertise and philosophy and was a dude, I\u2019d be just as happy,\u201d <\/span>declared<\/span> after the ruling that \u201cit turns out that Amy Coney Barrett is a DEI hire, little better than Ketanji Jackson.\u201d The Notre Dame College Republicans were equally as angry at the university\u2019s former law professor, <\/span>posting<\/span> on X that \u201cBarrett is an absolute disgrace to the Notre Dame name. We apologize on her behalf to all who will suffer the devastating consequences of infinity [sic] third-world migration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Many MAGA commentators got personal by going after Barrett\u2019s <\/span>children<\/span>, who were adopted from Haiti. \u201cIf you think it\u2019s a coincidence that the \u2018conservative\u2019 justice with no biological children and the justice with two Haitian adoptees are fundamentally libs when the chips are down, you have a lot to learn about politics,\u201d <\/span>posted<\/span> Jeremy Carl, Trump\u2019s nominee as assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, who was forced to withdraw from consideration due to his extensive history of bigoted remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n

This apocalyptic language emerging from MAGA commentators, Fox News and other conservative media outlets, and the White House is all of a piece, designed to manufacture urgency for a coalition that needs permanent grievance to stay mobilized. Trump and the GOP believe they can turn the tide of public opinion on the issue. Recent polls have found that a majority of Americans <\/span>\u2014 69% according to a Quinnipiac University <\/span>poll<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump may have lost his case before the Court, but in a narrower political sense, MAGA has gained something valuable: another resentment they are certain to turn into a rallying cry in the run-up to November\u2019s midterms.<\/span><\/p>\n

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