Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) revealed something "deeply disturbing" about the state of American politics on Tuesday after he melted down over a recent Supreme Court decision.
Johnson was asked by reporters for his reaction to the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision to uphold birthright citizenship, a move that court watchers described as a rebuke of President Donald Trump. The case stemmed from an executive order Trump signed last year that sought to unilaterally remove birthright citizenship, as guaranteed in the 14th Amendment, from the Constitution, from those born on U.S. soil to undocumented or temporary-resident parents.
"You could say that’s a textualist originalist view. However, I do think that this has been grossly abused in recent years," Johnson said about the opinion.
His comments raised red flags for Mary Trump, the president's niece and a clinical psychologist.
"Mike Johnson claims to be a constitutional lawyer. Frankly, I think he needs to have his law license revoked," Mary Trump wrote in a new Substack essay. "The idea that somebody who presents himself as a constitutional scholar would object to the Supreme Court doing the one thing it is actually supposed to do, uphold the Constitution, tells us an enormous amount about where we are as a country."
Mary Trump also noted that Johnson's comments seemed to suggest he expected the Supreme Court to have sided with her uncle in the case, regardless of the law. She noted that it was "deeply disturbing" to see four justices appear to agree with Johnson's assessment and revealed that they were "apparently willing to ignore that plain constitutional language."
"Apparently, they either cannot read the Constitution or they believe that an incompetent, corrupt, anti-American, traitor can simply sign an executive order and erase one of the most important constitutional amendments ever adopted," Mary Trump wrote. "That is also where we are as a country."