Conservative commentator Matt Walsh launched a scathing attack on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday after the high court ruled against President Donald Trump on the issue of birthright citizenship, accusing the Trump-appointed justice of repeatedly siding against the president on key legal battles.
The Daily Wire commentator criticized Barrett in a series of posts on X shortly after the Supreme Court issued its 6-3 decision.
“It turns out that Amy Coney Barrett is a DEI hire, little better than Ketanji Jackson. Terrible pick,” Walsh wrote. “When’s the last time we had a Republican president who didn’t put a liberal justice on the court?”
Minutes earlier, Walsh had argued that the outcome was widely expected but no less consequential.
He wrote that everyone knew the Supreme Court would rule against Trump but said the decision remained “catastrophic.” Walsh also criticized the court’s conclusion that individuals born on American soil automatically receive U.S. citizenship, calling the ruling “idiotic on its face” and claiming it was “based on logic that nobody actually believes.”
Walsh went on to argue that the decision would encourage illegal immigration, saying the ruling had opened the “floodgates for foreign invaders to flock across our borders and spawn.”
He called for a significantly tougher immigration response.
“The only choice we have is to triple down on immigration enforcement,” Walsh wrote. “Militarize the border. Mass deportations. Round every illegal up.”
He added, “Don’t pull back when the lesbian activists start screeching about it. Use whatever force is necessary. There is no other option.”
Walsh published the posts shortly after the Supreme Court handed down its ruling Tuesday morning. Barrett joined Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority. Roberts authored the court’s opinion.
“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community,” Roberts wrote. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”
Trump has argued that so-called “birth tourism,” in which foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth so their children automatically receive American citizenship, represents an abuse of the system and is inconsistent with the original purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment.
According to the report, Trump has maintained that the amendment was intended to guarantee citizenship for the children of formerly enslaved people but has since evolved into what he has described as a “great scam.”
Walsh is not alone among conservative commentators in expressing frustration with Barrett’s recent rulings.
Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon criticized the justice on Monday after she sided with the court’s liberal justices in a separate case involving Trump’s effort to limit mail-in voting. Bannon questioned whether sufficient vetting had been conducted before Barrett was nominated to the Supreme Court.
“Did anybody do any due diligence here?” Bannon asked during his War Room program. Referring to anti-abortion advocates, he added, “The right to life crowd, hey, did you do your due diligence?”
Bannon later sarcastically referred to Barrett as a “lovely pick” by Trump.
Barrett was nominated by Trump and confirmed shortly before the 2020 election, replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The report also notes that Barrett has ruled against Trump in several significant cases since joining the court, including decisions involving his efforts to reduce billions of dollars in foreign aid and his tariffs. Following those rulings, Trump questioned why Barrett would “hurt our country so badly” by ruling against him.
After Tuesday’s decision, Walsh continued his criticism, writing that “the worst” Supreme Court justices have all been women before adding, “Republican presidents should take the hint.”
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