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Alito: John Roberts Sold Out The Declaration Of Independence ‘Only Days Before’ 250th Anniversary

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30.06.2026

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Alito: John Roberts Sold Out The Declaration Of Independence ‘Only Days Before’ 250th Anniversary

‘Every step of this story is incorrect,” Alito wrote. ‘The Declaration of Independence repudiated the foundation on which the British rule was based.’

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Chief Justice John Roberts declared Tuesday that all foreigners have a claim to American citizenship, so long as they happen to be born here. In doing so, as Justice Samuel Alito pointed out, he reimposed the British system of subjecthood totally rejected by the American founders “only days before” the country is set to celebrate its 250th anniversary of independence from that very system.

“According to the Court, the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause codified the British rule of birthright subjecthood with only one new exception, which was needed to accommodate the unique status of American Indians,” Alito wrote, dissenting from Roberts’ attempt to reimpose medieval feudalism. “That is a curious claim, and it is ironic that the Court should embrace it only days before we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, which emphatically renounced the foundation on which the British rule rested.”

Alito explained further that the concept of “citizenship” was not part of the British understanding of a person’s association with........

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