On June 30, the Supreme Court upheld the understanding of birthright citizenship that has been in place for more than a century.

"Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights ‒ to freely participate in our political community," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. "The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land.' We keep that promise today."

The result was expected. What I didn't expect was how closely the response from the decision's critics would resemble the left's, when Democrats don't get their way at the court.

These doomsday predictions have hardened into calls for extraordinary responses ‒ ones that would upend our republican form of government. Those blaming the Supreme Court for America's immigration policy are aiming at the wrong target.

Just because the other two branches won't do their job doesn't mean the Supreme Court should do it for them.

The court's critics sound a lot like the left

The right's critics responded with a meltdown that could pass for the left's after a decision doesn't go its way.

"I at least got to live for 40 years in a country that looks and functions something like America," said Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire. Walsh ignores the fact that America had birthright citizenship for the entire time he's been alive ‒ and for more than a century before that.

"Apocalyptically and indefensibly bad," said Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, editor in........

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