House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship, claiming it jeopardized national security.
Conservatives were broadly outraged over Tuesday’s ruling, which ruled 6-3 that Trump’s executive order was unlawful and 5-4 that it was unconstitutional, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee, joining the justices nominated by Democratic presidents both times. While the head of the executive was outraged over the ruling, so was one of the heads of the legislative branch.
“Today’s ruling is antithetical to the rule of law and endangers our national security,” Johnson said. “Our country should be under no obligation to permit illegal immigration to America for the sole purpose of engineering citizenship.
“This issue is too important and too precious to get wrong. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the Supreme Court has done.”
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Johnson’s statement came ahead of the expected storm of pressure from Trump, who has shifted responsibility to the legislature to help overturn birthright citizenship.
“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump said Tuesday in a Truth Social post. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!”