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Letter: With the Constitution under attack, the decision on birthright citizenship offers glimmer of hope

(Haiyun Jiang | The New York Times) A protester holds up a sign outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday morning, May 15, 2025.

Thank goodness the 2025-2026 term of the conservative United States Supreme Court is over and done! This court can no longer wreck havoc on the U.S. Constitution and continually undermine our democracy. At least until the next term.

As I review the decisions announced from this term, I am saddened, but not surprised as to the continuing lack of morality, empathy to others, and dark intentions apparent in said decisions. There is something that did give me hope. That is that this court did uphold Section 1 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. One does not need to be a Supreme Court judge to read and understand the few very important words. If you were born in the United States, you are a U.S. citizen! It couldn’t be any more plain!

Sorry, Mister President. Your efforts to whitewash America were stunted today. And this administration’s hope to continue to pummel the Constitution ended with this decision. Unfortunately, we have come to expect unconstitutional decisions from this court.

Even so, I was able to exhale today for a minute. Knowing that the most corrupt, morally vacant grifter and his cronies on the court had to make the right constitutional decision. But I realize that until this administration and all the lying and corruption is voted out, no one is safe! No one is safe, no matter what rights the Constitution says you have. Because, it is believed by the president that those rights can be taken away by a sharpie on an executive order. Not true!

Nancy Ann Roblez, Murray

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