U.S. Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship

On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's executive order and upheld birthright citizenship, 5-4.

I read this case at the World Astrology Summit this spring, before oral arguments began. Two questions were on the table: what the Court would decide, and when.

The first I committed to plainly. The chart for the appeal – Trump v. Barbara – did not look survivable for the petitioner, and I said birthright citizenship would be upheld.

I told you the decision would track the ingress of Jupiter into Leo. That part held – Jupiter crossed into Leo on June 30, and the verdict came down the same day. Where I went wide was the specific date: I put my lead bet on the following Monday, July 6, reasoning that the Court reads decisions on Mondays and the ingress fell on a Tuesday. The decision came on that Tuesday, the ingress day itself. The sky was tighter than the caution I laid over it.

If you want to see how the judgment was built, the recording is available to stream on YouTube. The talk reads the appeal as a trial chart, weighing the two sides by their rulers and their condition, and sets it against a chain of earlier rulings on the same question – the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the ratification of the 14th Amendment, and Wong Kim Ark in 1898. It also lays out the timing method used.