Apparently, losing one Supreme Court case was enough to send one prominent MAGA figure completely off the rails.
After the Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship through executive action, one of Trump’s most outspoken media allies responded by proposing a series of increasingly extreme measures, including banning women from entering the United States and even calling for the “sterilization of all foreign visitors.”
The comments came from Sean Davis, CEO of the fiercely pro-Trump outlet The Federalist, who reacted to the Court’s ruling with what quickly became one of the most jaw-dropping social media meltdowns of the day.
Trump responded to the ruling by urging Congress to pass legislation ending birthright citizenship—a proposal legal experts say cannot override the Constitution.
Davis, however, decided that wasn’t nearly extreme enough.
Blasting Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett for refusing to back Trump’s constitutional power grab, Davis unveiled what he called several possible “ways forward.”
His first proposal was for states to simply stop issuing birth certificates to babies born to non-citizens, daring the courts to sort out the chaos later.
His second? Expand the Supreme Court in retaliation.
Then the proposals took an even darker turn.
Davis suggested: “Denying entry to all pregnant foreign nationals. Denying entry to all female foreign nationals. Requiring the sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry.”
He didn’t stop there.
Davis also floated dissolving the United States altogether, arguing that “a nation which can’t even restrict who gets to be a citizen isn’t a nation.”
Only after those proposals did he suggest pursuing an actual constitutional amendment—the one legal avenue available for changing birthright citizenship.
The backlash was immediate.
Former attorney and New York Times columnist David French called the list “absolute BONKERS,” saying it was astonishing that some conservatives now view a constitutional guarantee that has existed for more than 150 years as an existential threat to the country.
Political journalist Isaac Saul was equally blunt, writing that the CEO of The Federalist was advocating forced sterilization and dissolving the Union because a conservative Supreme Court issued one ruling he didn’t like.
“You have the White House, House, Senate, and SCOTUS and it’s not enough,” Saul wrote. “Totally unhinged.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper joined the pile-on by simply posting a screenshot of Davis’s comments, allowing readers to see the extraordinary proposals for themselves.
Ironically, Davis appeared before the Senate just last year to testify about free speech and online censorship, acknowledging that his social media posts are often “opinionated and provocative.”
Mission accomplished.
But advocating the sterilization of foreigners and floating the breakup of the United States because the Supreme Court refused to rewrite the Constitution is more than provocative. It’s a striking example of how quickly parts of the MAGA movement can lurch toward increasingly extreme rhetoric when they don’t get the outcome they want.
