ROOKE: Smells Like Civil War

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Welcome back to Good Life, a newsletter about navigating our modern culture and staying sane in the process. This week, we discuss the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision and how we are going to fight against it.

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I’m still processing the U.S. Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling. I, like millions of Americans, saw their decision to uphold the idea that an illegal immigrant or a birth tourist could deliver a baby on U.S. soil and that magically gave them citizenship and all the rights granted to them by it.

Birthright citizenship is a suicidal idea that should never have been enshrined in the U.S. Constitution in the first place. And it was obvious to anyone who doesn’t hold hate for America that the 14th Amendment intended to help alleviate the tensions of the Civil War, not to open our land up to anyone who stepped foot on our shores. This was a terrible ruling in a long list of Supreme Court decisions that have hurt our nation.

In the aftermath, Americans were rightly angered by the supposedly conservative justices who sided with the left on this issue. Roberts, Barrett, and Gorsuch exposed where their allegiance lies, and it’s not with their fellow........

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