Jamaica Plain Progressives

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JP Progressives brings progressives together to build electoral power, mobilize around issues, build a progressive community, and engage Jamaica Plain. A chapter of Progressive Massachusetts, but we're older and can't stop talking about it.

Second apparently this was a close case for this Court. As it stands the decision is 6-3. In 1898 the Court’s decision protecting birthright citizenship, Won Kim Ark v. U.S., was 6-2. That means this SCOTUS is either on par w/or to the right of the 1898 Court - the same SCOTUS that decided Plessy!

It’s important to keep today’s birthright citizenship decision in context. First, SCOTUS left the status of a fundamental, explicitly articulated constitutional right uncertain for over a year all to affirm what was clear from the issuance of Trump’s EO. Birthright citizenship cannot be abridged.

If only Congressman Moulton brought this same energy back in 2024 when he said "I have two little girls, I don't want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I'm supposed to be afraid to say that" perhaps we wouldn't be here

Rep. Seth Moulton@moulton.house.gov · 2mo ago

Every young person deserves to learn and play sports alongside their peers without being targeted for who they are. Today’s SCOTUS decision is a painful reminder of the work we still need to do to protect the transgender community from these blanket bans that continue to attack their freedom.