By Jordan Gerard | Yellow Sheet
Arizona’s two major political parties are cheering two different partisan victories in the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
Democrats praised the court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship, framing it as a constitutional check on President Donald Trump’s effort to narrow who counts as a citizen at birth. Meanwhile, Republicans rejoiced at the court’s decision to allow states to determine eligibility for female athletic teams based on biological sex.
In the birthright citizenship case, the court affirmed that people born on U.S. soil to parents who either entered the country illegally or live and work in the U.S. under temporary visas are citizens and struck down Trump’s executive order that attempted to bar citizenship for those children.
Republicans had backed Trump’s order and warned that broad birthright citizenship fuels illegal immigration, but the ruling denied them that win even as a separate decision on transgender athletes gave the GOP a clear victory on women’s sports.
