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While the Supreme Court narrowly ruled against President Donald Trump's attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, the way the justices actually split their votes carried a disturbing message of its own, attorney and former United Nations delegate Andrew Weinstein warned on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, four of the Supreme Court's nine justices indicated they did not believe Trump's effort to overturn birthright citizenship – a right explicitly enshrined in the 14th Amendment – was unconstitutional. While the court ultimately rejected Trump’s case for why he should be allowed to eliminate a constitutionally protected right, the vote tally was nonetheless disturbing, Weinstein argued.

Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh was on the receiving end of a legal and personal beatdown over a panicked response to the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship on Tuesday.

While Republican members of Congress were waving the bloody flag over Donald Trump’s courtroom loss with promises of legislative action, Walsh hit the panic button over “foreign invaders” flocking “across our borders” to “spawn,” and urged a crackdown on immigrants, no matter the legality.

Internal financial documents reveal that the contractor running President Trump's flagship $1 billion self-deportation initiative, Project Homecoming, came within weeks of running out of money entirely.

A burn-rate dashboard dated May 7 and shared with the Department of Homeland Security projected that Salus Worldwide Solutions, the company managing the program, would hit "burnout" — the point of total fund depletion — by May 26, reported The Daily Beast's PunchUp.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) accused White House budget director Russ Vought of dodging repeated questions about whether USAID funding cuts have killed people.

The clash unfolded at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing this week, where Vought, who leads the Office of Management and Budget, testified on the agency's budget.

The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow Tuesday to the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, but less than an hour after the justices handed down their decision, President Donald Trump was already musing on how to sidestep the court’s ruling.

“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

While the Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday regarding birthright citizenship dominated news headlines, another ruling delivered by the court moments earlier may ultimately "destroy what remains of America’s anti-corruption laws,” journalist David Sirota warned.

“For the last 2 years, [we have] been warning about this case spearheaded by [Vice President] JD Vance,” Sirota, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, wrote in a social media post on X.

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) said Tuesday that depression was behind his nearly four-month disappearance from Congress.

Kean had not cast a vote since March 5. He missed more than 100 votes.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh helped hand Donald Trump a defeat on birthright citizenship on Tuesday while simultaneously offering a roadmap for how a future Congress could accomplish what the Supreme Court refused to allow the president to do unilaterally.

Kavanaugh joined the majority in striking down Trump's executive order attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship protections guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion reaffirming that nearly all children born on U.S. soil automatically receive citizenship regardless of parental nationality.

But Kavanaugh's concurrence contained a novel and unprecedented suggestion that could open the door for a conservative Congress to legislatively eliminate birthright citizenship in the future, according to Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck, writing for CNN.

"Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a bit of a strange opinion, explaining that he was “concurring in the judgment,” but also “dissenting in part," the legal expert wrote.

Justice Clarence Thomas's eyebrow-raising birthright citizenship dissent on Tuesday became the topic of discussion on MS NOW, with one anchor describing it as "astonishing" and legal analyst Lisa Rubin calling it "disappointing."

"Astonishing may be the wrong word; I think disappointing maybe another word," Rubin said, telling viewers the dissent was "certainly predictable, based on oral argument."