Court Opinion

ID: 9429181
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:25:54.863036+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:17.703518
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Justice Brennan,
concurring.
I join the Court’s opinion. I write separately, however, to stress that this case involves only a facial challenge to the constitutionality of the Texas statute. Ante, at 325 and 330, n. 10. In upholding the statute, the Court does not pass on its validity as applied to children in a range of specific factual contexts. In particular, the Court does not decide whether the statute is constitutional as applied to Roberto Morales, a United States citizen whose parents are nonresident aliens. If this question were before the Court, I believe that a different set of considerations would be implicated which might affect significantly an analysis of the statute’s constitutionality.