Commentators blast Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling: 'A legal abomination'

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, July 01, 2026

1. Ben Shapiro: 'A legal abomination'

Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro, who studied law at Harvard University, denounced the ruling as "a legal abomination" during a lengthy breakdown of the decision on his podcast Tuesday.

"This makes yet another terrible Chief Justice Roberts decision because, again, remember he's the guy who said Obamacare was totally legal. Now he, along with the liberals on the court, is claiming that the Constitution of the United States under the 14th Amendment mandates that if you're born in the United States under pretty much any circumstances, you automatically become a citizen," he said.

The Supreme Court's ruling on birthright citizenship is a legal abomination. But it's just more evidence that Congress and multiple presidents, in abdicating their duty on immigration for decades, have screwed America irredeemably. We're going live now:https://t.co/4lDLbY22lT

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 30, 2026

Shapiro argued that the framers of the U.S. Constitution and the 14th Amendment never intended for the situation affirmed this week by the court.

"Now I understand that we've been living with that rule in the United States for a very, very long time. That is how the legal authorities have interpreted citizenship in the United States. But the real answer here is that the Constitution never, never contemplated that. The 14th Amendment never contemplated that. ... The birthright citizenship clause, the Citizenship Clause never contemplated that," he said.

Shapiro tied the ruling to decades of congressional and presidential failure to restrain illegal immigration, arguing that granting citizenship to children of non-citizens has already radically altered the demographics of the U.S. in ways the authors of the 14th Amendment never intended.

"It just underscores how much this bad legal take on what citizenship amounts to has totally screwed America. Congress abdicated, multiple presidents abdicated," he said.

"And so, when you let in literally millions, maybe tens of millions of people, who then have babies in the United States who are then citizens, you totally, radically change the composition of the country, because of bad legal interpretations like birthright citizenship," he added.