Burpelson said:
Looks like illegals will be legal in some states and illegal in others, the SC is going to have to decide this once and for all or our states legal docket is going to be round the clock working on birthright citizenship cases.
That is one possibility, if a state is a party. And then such an incongruous result creates an Equal Protection type of argument. Where the mother lives? Where a child is subsequently born still within the US?
Last week's decision was still a very big decision in a lot of respects but it will be next term before they can get to the merits of what the 14th does and doesn't mean.
I also think KBJ knows how that decision on the merits is likely to go and that is why she threw her hissy fit and didn't back down even knowing the majority would blast her for it.