The Mass. Angle on US Supreme Court Decisions

MAGA risks losing its edge on the Supreme Court with relentless attacks on Trump judge

Conservatives have been on the attack against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she ruled against President Donald Trump's executive order in the birthright citizenship case. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows that Barrett has the lowest polling of any other justice at a time the High Court itself enjoys only 36 percent approval. It's largely because she never had any support from Democrats and has lost support from Republicans. But w…

Architect of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Doesn’t Think President Will Accept SCOTUS Decision

The Supreme Court last week struck down President Trump's 2025 executive order that attempted to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. However, the man who authored the first draft said Tuesday he doubts the fight is over for the president and his supporters. The author, Theo Wold, a former assistant attorney general and White House deputy assistant for Domestic Policy under Trump who wrote the original draft, s…

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship in 5-4 Decision – Roberts, Coney Barrett Side With Liberals

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship in 5-4 Decision – Roberts, Coney Barrett Side With Liberals | 30 June 2026 | The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship in a 5-4 decision. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. “Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of…

The Mass. angle on US Supreme Court decisions

THE US SUPREME COURT’S final stretch before its summer recess ended last week with a flurry of rulings on high-profile cases, including birthright citizenship, the independence of the Federal Reserve, trans athletes, and mail-in ballots. More ideologically split than in prior terms, the highest court in the nation often divided cleanly along political lines, and its conservative majority prevailed 6-3 in more than a fifth of its rulings this ses…

Supreme Court hands Trump key immigration wins

What happenedThe Supreme Court last week struck down President Trump’s attempt to radically curtail birthright citizenship, a policy pursued by Trump for more than a decade, but greenlit other major elements of his hard-line immigration agenda. In a 6-3 vote, the court ruled against an executive order signed by Trump on the first day of his second term, which declared that future children born in the U.S. to undocumented migrants and most visa h…

America, Trump, And The Politics Of Belonging In A Connected World

Many commentators view the current debate as another chapter in Donald Trump's political story. That explanation is incomplete.