Conservatives Worried Justice Gorsuch Just Set the Stage for an ‘Absurd Birthright Citizenship Ruling’

Conservatives do not move in mindless lockstep the way woke liberals do. We can have our disagreements, even on important points of principle and policy.

Nonetheless, we should assume good faith debate and try not to talk past one another. This holds true especially in what we might call the “creed” vs. “culture” debate.

In a recent interview with the libertarian-minded Reason Magazine, conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch characterized the United States as a “creedal nation,” rooted in the principles of the Declaration of Independence, thereby prompting outrage from some conservatives on the social media platform X, including one former advisor to President Donald Trump, who worried about Gorsuch potentially “‘prepping’ us for an absurd Birthright Citizenship ruling.”

“The Declaration of Independence had three great ideas in it: that all of us are equal; that each of us has inalienable rights given to us by God, not government; and