India, June 30 -- On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court made it to the national headlines for upholding birthright citizenship and quashing a Trump executive order that challenged the same. But as the landmark decision was announced, Justice Samuel Alito found himself in the news for a wholly different reason.

Justice Alito, along with fellow conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, dissented from Tuesday's decision, even as the majority against it included both conservatives and liberals.

Reflecting the unity among the liberals and conservatives in the decision, if only slim, the majority opinion on the decision was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, a moderate conservative appointed by President George W Bush.

But as th...