Trump v. Barbara · ¶448

In tackling that question, an avowedly textualist Court should start by carefully examining the text of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. FDA v. Alli ance for Hippocratic Medicine, 602 U. S. 367, 378 (2024) (“[W]e begin as always with the precise text of the Constitution”); Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U. S. 215, 235 (2022) (“Constitutional analysis must begin with ‘the language of the instrument’” (quoting Gib bons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 189 (1824))); see, e.g., District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570, 576 (2008) (beginning with an analysis of the Second Amendment’s text).

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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