Birthright Citizenship After Trump v. Barbara (2026)

An analysis of the June 30 US Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. Barbara through a strategic rather than legal lens, arguing that citizenship law is one of the oldest instruments of statecraft and that the litigation itself is a datum about American power. The historical pattern is consistent: expanding polities seek citizens and absorb them, because they need soldiers, taxpayers and settlers. Rome enfranchised Italy after the Social War; Caracalla extended citizenship empire-wide in 212 AD, and C