General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Roberts' retort sums up the case against Trump's birthright citizenship order
If theres one line to take away from Wednesdays Supreme Court hearing in the birthright citizenship case, it might be this: Its a new world. Its the same Constitution.
Those words were spoken by Chief Justice John Roberts, who I predict will be with and will possibly lead the majority of the court in rejecting President Donald Trumps bid to single-handedly redefine that citizenship.
Roberts words came as a retort to an argument from Solicitor General John Sauer, who sought to defend Trumps executive order in the face of the Constitution, the law and precedent that have long stood for a basic premise of American life: If youre born here, youre a citizen.
During Sauers opening remarks, the former Trump personal lawyer referred to birth tourism while complaining that uncounted thousands of foreigners from potentially hostile nations have flocked to give birth in the United States in recent decades, creating a whole generation of American citizens abroad with no meaningful ties to the United States.
Later in the hearing, Roberts returned to the subject, asking Sauer: Do you have any information about how common that is, or how significant a problem it is?
https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-roberts-new-world-same-constitution
Seems you can't change the Constitution with an executive order after all, Shitler!
bucolic_frolic
(55,162 posts)Maybe some Justices have discovered their rulings have implications on the real world?
FalloutShelter
(14,471 posts)It's not really about birthright citizenship at a all.
It is about whether or not the executive can void any, or all, of the Constitution by Presidential fiat.
Plain and simple: If SCOTUS finds for the toxic psychotic in the Oval we no longer have a Constitution.
PERIOD- EOS- Put up the head stone-
RIP USA