Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is 55, included the TikTok slang phrase “understood the assignment” in her concurring opinion in the Supreme Court’s major birthright citizenship ruling issued Tuesday.The Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara to uphold traditional birthright citizenship and strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order denying automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are illegally present or here on temporary visas.Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion.Justice Jackson filed a concurring opinion that went further in defending the broad interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.In her concurrence, Jackson wrote that those who championed the Fourteenth Amendment after the Civil War “understood the assignment.”The bizarre informal phrase appears on page 33 of the full opinion.Jackson wrote:In the aftermath of the Civil War, those who championed the Fourteenth Amendment—both within and beyond Congress—understood the assignment. Their work product used “language that transcended race and region,” and thereby “changed and broadened the meaning of freedom for all Americans.” Instead of the limited salve the principal dissent makes it out to be, the Citizenship Clause reflects this universalist approach.”The phrase is widely used on TikTok and social media, mostly by Gen Z, to mean someone has fully grasped and executed what was expected of them.Conservatives flooded social media with disgust at the casual internet being used in a formal decision, a sign of a serious decline in the Court’s seriousness.Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson used the tik tok slang phrase “understood the assignment” in her concurring opinion for the birthright citizenship case pic.twitter.com/c4tDYq0LMN— Pericles (@PerryALPHA) June 30, 2026Many also noted the excessive use of em dashes in the opinion, speculating that it may have been written, at least in part, by AI.Trump has long argued that birthright citizenship was intended for the children of freed slaves following the Civil War, not as a reward for illegal entry or birth tourism.The post Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Used Trashy TikTok Slang ‘Understood the Assignment’ in Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Opinion appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.