The Supreme Court will not hold. The system has

[Ms. Toad]

29. Deportation and citizenship are related, but different issues.

The executive order was very carefully crafted, by someone other than Trump, to have the best chance at success in the courts. It is strictly limited to individuals born 30 days after it started. It doesn't apply to all individuals born to non-citizens - just the classes they believe have the most tenuous ties to citizenship. They know they are on weak grounds, and took a lot of care to do something without overreaching.

No, they are not going to issue another, broader, birthright citizenship EO until this one has had some success. That will be at least a year.

As long as you are a citizen now, you will be a citizen in every state, unless you less than 5 months old. The executive order is very clear that it applies only to people born more than 30 days after the date of the order (Jan 20, 2025). And if you are less than 5 months old - congratulations on being an infant prodigy.


That doesn't mean that brown people can let down their guard. They are going to continue to push the limits of deportation - searching for catch and kill locations to bump numbers (ports of entry, court hearings, immigration status hearings, visas, etc.) They are going to continue stopping brown people, and "occasionally" scooping up citizens in their wake - and shipping to detention first, and asking questions later. Every deportation - even if it is just turning someone away at the port of entry adds to their count - and they want numbers they can shout to the world. It is abhorrent.

BUT I was addressing solely the legal impact of this decision, in the wake of a whole bunch of people who are not impacted by even the broadest interpretation of the court's ruling spreading disinformation about what the ruling itself means.