The Chilling Ramifications of Clarence Thomas’s Cuckoo Barbara Dissent ^44.3%

newrepublic.com - By Harry Litman - 7/10/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 36.8% - Negativity Bias 28.1% - Appeal to Authority 18.5%

Many commentators, myself included, perceived a different headline to the Supreme Court’s rejection in Trump v. Barbara of Trump’s executive order in the birthright citizenship case. The real gobsmacking detail was not the court’s holding, which was broadly signaled in oral arguments, but the fact that four justices—Clarence Thomas, Neil... more