The Citizenship Act of 2026
A Constitutional Response to the Supreme Court Earlier this month, I wrote that the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Barbara wouldn’t stand the test of time. Justice Thomas said as much in his dissent. The majority took the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, stripped it of its original meaning, and turned it into something approaching an automatic territorial grant—the very thing the Reconstruction framers never intended. The dissents from Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch laid bare the flaws. Justice Kavanaugh, while joining the judgment against the Executive Order, quietly left the door open for Congress. That door is now being…