Daily Wire Asks JD Vance If He’s Angry With Barrett Over SCOTUS Loss

Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan on Wednesday pressed Vice President JD Vance to weigh in on the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship and whether he’s upset with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

In a landmark ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court held that children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.

Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, joined Roberts in the decision, which dealt a blow to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda and drew strong backlash from conservatives.

“Some conservatives are angry with Justice Jamie Coney Barrett. Are you one of them?” Olohan asked Vance after he delivered remarks to troops in Virginia Beach. 

“Well, look, do I think she made a mistake in the ruling? I do. I don’t know how anybody can say that if a person who is an illegal alien, or a person, for example, who’s pregnant and comes to the United States on a vacation, they have a baby, and all of a sudden their entire family gets the benefits of American citizenship,” Vance said. 

“I don’t think that’s what the framers of the 14th Amendment had in mind. I don’t think it’s the right case, but look, it was 5-4. Sometimes the Supreme Court makes mistakes, we’re going to try to correct that mistake, but nobody’s perfect, including the Supreme Court,” Vance added. 

The Daily Wire also asked the Vice President about speculation — and a bogus NPR report — claiming Justice Samuel Alito will soon retire from the bench.

“I don’t know, you know, Justice Alito is such an amazing guy, and I think the Supreme Court, he would be irreplaceable, but of course, if he retired, that’s up to him, and we would try to do the best job we could at finding a proper replacement,” Vance told The Daily Wire. 

Vance also responded to The Daily Wire’s question about why Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hopes that the vice president leads the 2028 Republican ticket.

“I don’t think much about 2028, as you know,” Vance said to Olohan. “My attitude is, let’s do a good job now, let’s continue to try to make some wins for the American people. We can worry about the future when the future comes, but we got an important midterm election here. We got to keep the people in Congress who’ve been fighting for our troops and our veterans.”

“That’s what I’m focused on,” he said.

.@MaryMargOlohan: Why do you think AOC says she hopes you’re the nominee in 2028?@VP: “I don’t know. I don’t think much about 2028…My attitude is let’s do a good job now.” pic.twitter.com/Z1iHS7faI5

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 1, 2026