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

3. Glenn Beck: 'A suicide pact'

Conservative author and radio host Glenn Beck responded to news of the court's decision by quipping, "Citizenship apparently is a suicide pact."

"Just because they ruled this way does not make this reading correct. They're just leaving a distortion in the reading of the 14th Amendment, and it's one the people who drafted this would never have recognized. Never," said Beck, who went on lay out the history of the 14th Amendment and its intended purpose to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their descendants.

The Supreme Court just ruled that, apparently, immigration IS a suicide pact. It has struck down Trump's birthright citizenship executive order and chose to distort the single most important phrase in the 14th Amendment: "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

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— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) June 30, 2026

"This amendment was targeted as a remedy for the specific evil of slavery and the Democratic South's refusal to accept its end. It was never written to create automatic citizenship for children born to parents who enter the country illegally or come here just to give birth, like the Chinese are. That's suicide."

"It was never meant to turn our constitutional compassion after slavery into a magnet for law-breaking, or a tool for demographic transformation without the consent of the American people. It makes no sense to do that," he added.

Beck suggested that U.S. laws born out of "justice and mercy" and the common desire for goodness are "being twisted against us once again."