The US Supreme Court upholds restrictions on 14th Amendment birthright citizenship before July 2028.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 12% by 29 Oct 2029. Full reasoning from every model.

WillHappen.ai · Accepted Answer

12% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2029-10-29.

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Gemini (Google): 6% — Overturning 125 years of precedent requires five justices to adopt fringe originalism against Wong Kim Ark's clear holding. Even conservative stalwarts and originalist scholars largely agree the plain text covers children of unauthorized immigrants. Litigation on an executive order would reach SCOTUS by early 2028, but Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett show zero appetite to upend it. A formal circuit split legitimizing Eastman-style jurisdiction theories would be needed to boost these odds above ten percent.

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Claude (Anthropic): 12% — Hinges on whether SCOTUS takes up Trump's EO and overturns Wong Kim Ark-era precedent before mid-2028. Lower courts have uniformly blocked the EO as unconstitutional under 126-year-old Wong Kim Ark precedent, making reversal a heavy lift. SCOTUS would need to grant cert, hear argument, and issue a ruling upholding restrictions within a roughly 18-month window from now. Conservative justices have shown textualist skepticism of broad EO reinterpretation of the Citizenship Clause, favoring narrow procedural rulings over merits reversal.

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GPT (OpenAI): 9% — This turns on five justices accepting a sharp break from Wong Kim Ark’s broad jus soli reading. Any real limitation would likely need an executive order or statute, then lower-court review and Supreme Court merits review by mid-2028. The Court has never upheld a domestic-born citizenship restriction against the Citizenship Clause; Wong Kim Ark (1898) is a major barrier. Odds rise sharply if a 2027–28 case reaches the Court on children of unlawfully present or temporary-visa parents.

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Grok (xAI): 18% — A restriction must be enacted, survive injunctions, and be affirmed by SCOTUS in the 2027 Term. An EO or statute must issue by early 2027 so the Court can grant cert after the 2026-27 term; Congress is slower than an EO. Wong Kim Ark plus 125 years of practice set a high bar even for a 6-3 Court; only Thomas/Alito have signaled openness. A Trump-style EO plus originalist briefing would most raise the odds; delay past spring 2027 would kill the timeline.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 12% — This needs a case to reach the Court and five justices to narrow the Citizenship Clause by mid-2028. No federal statute restricting birthright citizenship exists; only Trump's January 2025 executive order, which lower courts blocked as unconstitutional. The Court has not granted cert on the merits; even expedited, briefing and argument would likely push a ruling past mid-2028. The 1898 Wong Kim Ark precedent affirming the Clause is strong, and the current Court has shown reluctance to disturb settled citizenship doctrine.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 14% — Overturning Wong Kim Ark (1898) requires a majority willing to reject 127 years of settled interpretation on thin originalist grounds. Even conservative originalists like Barrett and Kavanaugh have not signaled openness to narrowing the Citizenship Clause beyond existing diplomatic/occupier exceptions. The Court would need to grant cert, hear arguments, and issue a ruling by July 2028—plausible timeline, but the substantive legal hurdle is the binding constraint. A development that would raise this: a circuit split with a conservative appellate panel endorsing the Eastman theory, forcing the Court's hand on cert.

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