Robert’s and Barrett did as expected
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Duh. It was a far-fetched legal argument. You should be happy that you're 90% of the way there with 4 votes.
Surely you can't be serious? As if we have time to take some weird solace in some meaningless moral victory that accomplishes actually nothing?
Maybe your expectations were too high if you thought that a far-fetched constitutional theory would win outright.
Imagine if the anti-abortion lobby said "oh, well, we lost 7-2, and then we lost again 6-3, and again". And their arguments were far more straightforward than this counterintuitive reading (btw, I find birthright citizenship to be incredibly stupid).
Far-fetched? It would be the normal understanding when the amendment was written.
Obviously, it wasn't meant to be applied to illegals, but the way it's written seems pretty straightforward.
If you're disappointed, you should really look at the initial reaction to Trump's order. It sure didn't sound like they thought this would get 4 votes. Rather, they were saying that it would be laughed out of court. It wasn't.