The 1982 decision by the USSC in the Plyler v. Doe case was made using the same material used in the 1973 Roe v.Wade case: whole cloth. In both cases the USSC decided upon fabrication when no constitutional basis existed for the decisions. The Executive and Legislative branches of government and the states just blindly obeyed the USSC mandates instead of rejecting them as outright unconstitutional and, therefore, not enforceable. Adherence to both unconstitutional actions have caused great damage to our country.
In my lifetime, most of the SC decisions rendered have been horrible mutated interpretations of our founding document with disastrous effect.
The most invasive and destructive interpretation being all acts of oppression under color of the commerce clause.’
I can only think back on a book I once read called “The Pelican Brief”.