'Deranged' Trump ally sparks frenzy after floating forced 'sterilization' after court loss
The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, a prominent pro-Trump conservative media figure, is drowning in criticism after proposing that the U.S. "require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry."
Davis posted a seven-point list on X after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that birthright citizenship — the guarantee that anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen — remains the law of the land.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the majority in the 6-3 decision.
"Several ways forward here given the choice of Roberts/Barrett to nullify the 14th Amendment and extra-constitutionally replace it with their own language," Davis wrote on X.
His list included barring entry to all pregnant foreigners, barring entry to all female foreigners, and dissolving the United States entirely.
"6) Dissolution of the Union. A nation which can't even restrict who gets to be a citizen isn't a nation," he wrote.
"Yes, that's what happens when John Roberts tries to cosplay as King Solomon," Davis added.
"Completely deranged," wrote Tablet Magazine editor Park MacDougald.
"This whole list is absolute BONKERS," New York Times columnist David French argued. "It is absolutely bizarre that these people believe that the continued application of a rule that has existed for generation after generation…is somehow the root of our national demise."
"When you hate immigrants so much that you want government-run sterilization," commented 2024 Libertarian presidential nominee Chase Oliver. "They don't want a Republic, they want fascism."
"It's … interesting to describe 'deferring to the relevant statute and the relevant century-old precedent' as 'nullifying the Constitution,'" Notre Dame law professor Rick Garnett pushed back on X.
Independent journalist Michael Tracey pointed out that Davis was now calling for the union's dissolution over a justice his own outlet once called "the best person, period" for the Supreme Court.
Leiden University law professor Yuan Yi Zhu's post highlighted Davis' sterilization idea.
"The obvious solution is to force all foreigners to become gay at reverse-conversion-therapy clinic[s] sited at every major point of entry," journalist Jesse Singal quipped. "It's called 'centrism,' look it up."