Supreme Court Strikes Down Birthright Order. TNM President: “Texas Does Not Get a Say in Any of It.”

On Tuesday, June 30, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the executive order that would have ended birthright citizenship, six to three. The ruling in Trump v. Barbara keeps automatic citizenship in place for anyone born on American soil, whatever the status of the parents. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, both seated by a Republican president, joined the Court’s three Democratic appointees to form the majority. Justice Clarence Thomas filed a ninety-one-page dissent, joined by Justices Gorsuch and Alito.

For Texas, the ruling settles a question larger than any single policy: who decides who becomes a Texan. As of Tuesday, the answer is Washington, and Texas has no vote in it.

The Texas Nationalist Movement responded the same day with an official statement from President Daniel Miller. It reads in full:

This morning the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the President’s executive order on birthright citizenship, six to three. The order is dead. The rule stands. Anyone born on Texas soil is a citizen of the United States, no matter who the parents are or whether they had any right to be here in the first place. And Texas does not get a say in any of it.

That is what it means to be part of this union. Washington decides who is a Texan. Not the people of Texas. Not the Texas Legislature. Nine lawyers in a building a thousand miles away, and as of this morning the question is closed.

Understand what the Court actually did. It did not rule on some dusty technicality. It made political, economic, and cultural suicide the official and permanent policy of the union Texas is chained to, and put it past the reach of any vote you will ever cast. The executive order was the one lever an elected government had left. The Court broke the lever and told the President to take it up with Congress.

This is worse than what Europe did to itself. The European Union’s open-door asylum regime has sent one old country after another into a death spiral, but a member state could at least fight it, and in the end walk away from it. Britain did exactly that. There is no such exit here. A court imposed the policy, no Texan chose that court, and no Texan can remove it. The only branch that tried to change course was just overruled.

So how does Texas nullify a policy that is killing it? It cannot. Texans have tried the resolutions and the lawsuits and a decade of elections, and watched every one of them change nothing. The only nullification left is the ultimate one.

Texas becomes a self-governing independent nation. It takes back what every free nation already holds without asking anyone: the power to control its own borders and decide who becomes a Texan. That power would not be on loan from a court, and Washington could not revoke it on a Tuesday in June. It would be Texas’s, finally and for good.

What the Court locked in this morning is not how the free world governs itself. Automatic citizenship for anyone born on the soil, whoever the parents are and however they got here, is the exception now, and a shrinking one. The United Kingdom ended it. Australia ended it. Japan never had it. Switzerland decides who becomes Swiss and puts the question to its own people. Every one of those countries made the call for itself and answered to no court but its own, because that is what a self-governing nation does. Texas cannot. Texas is treated as a province.

Texas was a nation before it was a state. Sam Houston promised the day would come when Texas would again lift its head and stand among the nations. No court will hand Texas that day. No Congress will grant it. Texans win it themselves, at the ballot box, the day they stop asking Washington for what is already theirs.

There is one way left to take back our border, our immigration, and our citizenship. One.

TEXIT.

The statement lands in the middle of a week that has made the movement’s case for it. On Monday, in Watson v. Republican National Committee, the same Court let states count mail ballots on the strength of a postmark from a federal postal service that lost nine billion dollars last year and has admitted it can no longer guarantee the date it stamps. On Tuesday, it closed the door on Texas ever setting its own citizenship policy from inside the union. Two mornings, two of the most basic powers a free people holds, both decided by the same nine, none of them answerable to a single Texan.

The Texas Nationalist Movement has argued for two decades that on the questions that define a people, how it votes and who belongs to it, the federal system cannot be fixed from within. This week the Supreme Court proved the point twice. The remedy the movement offers is the one no court can overrule: a binding vote of the people of Texas on independence.