The Supreme Court wrapped up its term by striking down the Trump administration’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
Madeline Peltz at Number Two Pencil:
The Supreme Court wrapped up its term by striking down the Trump administration’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Trump v. Barbara struck a major blow to the order at the very center of the administration’s anti-immigrant agenda. Still, even by questioning the 14th Amendment, the administration succeeded in getting three Supreme Court justices to say that children born to non-citizens should not have constitutional rights.
Conservative female influencers cleverly knit the immigration question into a broader pro-natalist agenda by fearmongering about so-called “birth tourism,” “global surrogacy,” and even framing the decision as a plot to encourage abortion.
The Daily Wire’s Isabel Brown claimed the ruling was the “most impactful” decision in a generation, describing it as the “Roe v. Wade of Gen Z’s lifetime.”
“Does being a leftist in America today mean that you must fervently support as many American women killing their children as humanly possible, by the millions, before they are ever even born because ‘human rights,’” she said, adding an air quotes gesture, “while also fervently supporting foreign adversaries hijacking a birth tourism system so that their children can be born in America and take over American culture because ‘human rights?’”
Fearmongering about “birth tourism,” the notion that immigrants are coming to the United States and giving birth to obtain citizenship rights for their children, is a longtime right-wing scare tactic. The administration raised the issue during arguments in Trump v. Barbara. Solicitor General D. John Saucer claimed that “uncounted thousands of foreigners from potentially hostile nations have flocked to give birth in the United States in recent decades.”
But as The New York Times reports, “Scholars at Penn State released a study this week, based on analysis of official data, that found that fewer than 0.3 percent of all U.S. births in any given year were to tourists.”
Fundamentalist podcaster and author of Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion, Allie Beth Stuckey, took a similar line. She said the “ruling solidifies a key driver of illegal immigration, baby trafficking, and global surrogacy.” The comments section on this post is flooded with disagreements among her conservative Christian audience.
On her Substack Rethinking Fertility, Emma Waters, the anti-IVF policy analyst for the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation, focused her criticism of the Barbara by claiming it will fuel abuse of surrogacy laws.
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The administration has responded to their defeat by floating a ban on pregnant immigrants. On X, SiriusXM radio host Megyn Kelly endorsed the idea of terminating the visa of any non-citizen who becomes pregnant and prosecuting doctors who do not report positive pregnancy tests of non-citizens to the government.
The right-wing womanosphere big mad over the Trump v. Barbara SCOTUS ruling protecting birthright citizenship.
The Fox News contributor said President Donald Trump is "authentic all the way" in taking over American aspects of life she claimed "used to
Marco Margaritoff at HuffPost:
Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway is championing President Donald Trump for “taking control” of various institutions and traditions of American life. She cited some of his most controversial decisions Friday — and joyously described them as “super exciting.”
The former Trump aide was hosting “Hannity” that evening and spoke to conservative podcaster Isabel Brown, who claimed that Cracker Barrel’s failed attempt to rebrand was “part of a much larger, sinister undertow of our culture led by the radical Marxist left.”
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Conway not only agreed with Brown’s claim but also praised the president’s outsized influence.
“He is authentic all the way, but he’s also, I think, taking control of these areas that used to belong to the left,” Conway said Friday. “The arts and sports and entertainment and media and tech and culture. And look at what he’s doing to the Kennedy Center.”
“Look at what he’s doing at universities,” she added. “Look at what he’s doing with sports.”
Trump controversially fired numerous Kennedy Center board members earlier this year and made himself the chair of its governing body. The MAGA leader told reporters in February that he would “make sure” the performing arts institution stops being “woke.”
Trump has made several other aggressive moves to shift American culture to a more conservative direction: He’s not only sued media organizations that cover his policies critically, but also encouraged the deportations of students who protested Israel’s war on Gaza.
Substituting in for Sean Hannity on his Fox “News” show Friday night, Trump lackey Kellyanne Conway invokes Seven Mountains Dominionism-esque language to justify Donald Trump’s fascistic takeover of cultural institutions.
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