GrumpyRabbit on Nostr: “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate ...

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community." ~ Chief Justice John Roberts—the lynchpin of his justification for his holding in the Birthright Citizenship case.

That's one of the most egregiously false claims I've ever heard from a Supreme Court Justice, or ever written in a Supreme Court holding.

You don't have rights because you're a citizen, you have them because you're a sapient being who reciprocally respects the equal rights of others.

This ruling effectively claims that only citizens have rights. And it will be used to so rule in the courts.

Link to the "Opinion of the Court," the concurring opinions, the dissenting opinions, and Kavanaugh's partially concurring and partially dissenting opinion => https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-365_4hdj.pdf