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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."

A veteran Supreme Court correspondent apparently jumped the gun with a report that Justice Samuel Alito is retiring.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reported Tuesday, just after the current term's last opinions were handed down, that the 76-year-old George W. Bush appointee was stepping down, but the network quickly retracted the breaking news article.

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was taken to task on Tuesday over his non-legalistic claims in a ruling that allows states to bar transgender female athletes from participating on girls’ and women’s sports teams.

In the 6-3 decision for the conservative majority Justice Brett Kavanaugh took the lead and wrote that schools "may determine eligibility for women's and girls' sports based on biological sex."

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor smacked her conservative colleagues with a stinging rebuke for their decision to gut another campaign finance statute by overturning a decades-old precedent.

The court struck down federal limits on how much money a political committee can spend in coordination with candidates in the case National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, and Sotomayor ripped the 6-3 conservative majority, questioned their legal reasoning and accused them of flaunting their own power.

The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to President Donald Trump’s agenda Tuesday after ruling 5-4 against his efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship, a constitutional right long targeted by far-right figures.

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community," wrote Justice John Roberts for the court's majority opinion. "We keep that promise today."