Court opinions that violate the Constitution are null and void. They don’t have to be obeyed by anyone. In fact, those who obey such opinions find themselves also in violation of their own oaths.
The intentions of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment are crystal clear. They had absolutely no intention of granting citizenship to the children of foreign nationals who are born in our country.
“[T]he candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Jarvis
Excellent post