DEI Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came up with an absurd argument to support Birthright Citizenship. She said, “I was thinking… I am a U.S. citizen visiting Japan. And what it means is that, you know, if I steal someone’s wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. Its allegiance, meaning, can they control you as a matter of law?”
“So there’s this relationship based on—even though I’m a temporary traveler, I’m just on vacation in Japan—I’m still locally owing allegiance in that sense. Is that the right way to think about it?”
“And if so, doesn’t that explain why both temporary residents and undocumented people would have that kind of, quote-unquote, allegiance, just by virtue of being in the United States?”
ACLU Lawyer Cecilia Wang: “That’s absolutely right, Justice Jackson.”
Yikes! It’s hard to believe this is the argument. However, it doesn’t mean they will lose.
For their perfectly ridiculous argument, Clown World welcomes Ketanji and the ACLU into Clown World as April’s Fools.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on birthright citizenship🚨:
“If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am subject to Japanese laws… in a sense, it’s allegiance.”
That’s her argument for granting automatic U.S. citizenship to children of illegal immigrants.
Subject to the laws = full… pic.twitter.com/i8EoTQ3N2c
— Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) April 1, 2026