From Lepanto Insutute @LepantoInst:
“USCCB issues confusing clarification regarding its incoherent amicus brief on birthright citizenship. This clarifies nothing, changes nothing, and calls further into question what the USCCB was even attempting to accomplish here!”
The story via The Pillar:
"[T]he brief does not urge the Court to decide the case on the basis of Catholic doctrine."
The U.S. bishops’ conference told its members this week that a legal brief on birthright citizenship did not claim that “that every democratic polity must adopt” a birthright citizenship policy “to satisfy moral standards.”
The clarification came in a March 2 memo issued to bishops, after controversy over a February amicus brief filed by the USCCB in a lawsuit challenging a 2025 Trump executive order that would change the country’s birthright citizenship policies.
Critics argued that the brief had asked the Supreme Court to apply religious teaching in its decision, and had presented Catholic teaching in an incoherent manner.
But a memo to bishops from William Quinn, general counsel for the USCCB, said that the brief instead relies on natural law to “show the harmony between our constitutional tradition and a moral vision of civic belonging.”
“The Court is asked to do what it always does: interpret and apply the Constitution,” said the memo, which was obtained by The Pillar after it was issued to bishops.
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