Vance calls Supreme Court birthright ruling a ‘major mistake’

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Vice President Vance said Tuesday that the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding birthright citizenship is a “major mistake.”

“This was a very disappointing ruling from the Supreme Court. We respect it, but we also think that it was a major, major mistake,” he said. “One of the things that it might invite, Laura, is people to come here quite literally on a vacation, give birth, and then all of a sudden the child and their family have the full benefits of American citizenship,” Vance told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle.”

“It’s just a preposterous ruling, and the absurdity of that outcome suggests why the Supreme Court should have went the other way,” he added.

The Supreme Court, by way of a 6-3 vote Tuesday, shot down President Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions, deciding that his key immigration policy was unconstitutional.

Chief Justice John Roberts, alongside the three liberal justices and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, said that the 14th Amendment allows for automatic citizenship for almost all children born in the U.S., including those born to parents in the country unlawfully.

“The trouble is that there is scant evidence for this dramatically revisionist view,” Roberts wrote of an executive order from the president.

Trump signed an executive order narrowing birthright citizenship upon his return to the White House last year, aiming to limit the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship guarantee to exclude children born in the U.S. to parents without permanent legal status.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh disagreed with the other justices, however, he voted to block the president’s order under a 1940 law.

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