Court Opinion

ID: 9434107
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:42:17.368449+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:46.410992
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Justice Scalia,
with whom Justice Thomas joins, concurring.
I remain of the view that the Court lacks power to provide relief of the sort requested in this suit — namely, conferral of citizenship on a basis other than that prescribed by Congress. See Miller v. Albright, 523 U. S. 420, 452 (1998) (Scalia, J., concurring in judgment). A majority of the Justices in Miller having concluded otherwise, see id., at 423 (opinion of Stevens, J., joined by Rehnquist, C. J.); id., at 460 (Ginsburg, J., joined by Souter and Breyer, JJ., dissenting); id., at 471 (Breyer, J., joined by Souter and *74Ginsburg, JJ., dissenting); and a majority of the Court today proceeding on the same assumption; I think it appropriate for me to reach the merits of petitioners’ equal protection claims. I join the opinion of the Court.