MS NOW Touts Justice Jackson’s ‘Moving’ Birthright Citizenship Opinion

As the Supreme Court released their decision to uphold birthright citizenship, the leftist media celebrated President Trump’s defeat, though they still found plenty to complain about. MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell and his guests on Monday’s The Last Word, Professor Laurence Tribe, Professor David Blight, and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) ripped into the dissenting Justices while misinterpreting American history and... (wait for it)... lavishing praise upon Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Can you explain to us why all nine Justices could not read that simple language of birthright citizenship the same way?” O’Donnell asked Tribe, teeing him up to attack the dissenting Justices. “Well, they certainly could read it the same way if they were being honest lawyers without any agenda. . .” Tribe replied. “Four Supreme Court Justices just couldn't seem to read the language or the history the way anybody who has studied this subject outside the context of wanting to please Donald Trump and the revisionists understood it to mean.” .@Harvard_Law professor Laurence (what kind of spelling is that?) Tribe calls the dissenting Justices of Trump v. Barbara dishonest lawyers: pic.twitter.com/4K3BVQfT9q — Cici Marie (@Cici_Marie_1776) July 1, 2026 In his answer, Blight later told O’Donnell, “Section One of the 14th Amendment is what holds this country together,” and that, “it's like the angel hovering over us that whatever else we do wrong, whatever, you know, missteps we make in the world, we've still got that. It still holds us together as a community, whatever we are, whoever we are, color, religion, anything.” Birthright citizenship is the only thing holding America together? Miss me with that one, ya old geezer. pic.twitter.com/1H8jvHG7H0 — Cici Marie (@Cici_Marie_1776) July 1, 2026 The two Ivy League professors also expressed their horror that anyone dissented from what they felt was a self-evident principle: TRIBE: What...