Right! Gaslighting at its finest there. There is nothing unintentional in his very articulate and public words, which I’m sure he understood had weight due to his status and power.
And that really worked too, that strategy. Those words. That agenda. It is disgusting to me how easily it caused people to destroy each other and ruin life for themselves and others.
Like school vouchers passed the Senate here and our public schools are going to lose tax dollars to grift… we’ll still pay them of course… they’ll just now can legally go to pastor Bill’s coke habit in service of Christy Christ McJesuscovich’s superfine megachurchindergarten for future housewives.
The Bible must be removed from school libraries because it mentions sex workers.
Because he’s a twisted git?
I’m willing to bet that at least half the Justices would be mortified if their tax returns were released.
Birthright citizenship arguments this morning. On my location pbs station.
I don’t understand what’s not clear about this:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
So, they’re saying that some people don’t have to follow the law in the U.S.?
Who aren’t diplomats? That’s a bold move.
What I was hearing on the radio this morning was that today’s case is going to be more about the authority of judges to issue emergency nationwide injunctions (which in this specific case is about the Birthright citizenship EO) rather than arguments about the fundamental question of birthright citizenship. But very important and consequential either way.
From the answers the government attorneys have been giving to questions like Kavanaugh’s (“What would it look like on Day 1 if the injunction was removed for hospitals and state departments of health?” Approximate quote), it’s really clear that the regime wants to keep their plan vague so that they can pick and choose who gets rejected and who gets accepted for birthright citizenship. They seem to also want to create a system of documentation that would allow them to do what they are doing with deportation - remove people born in the US without due process in such a way that it leaves people in a Catch 22, where instead of having citizenship or not having citizenship, they would have no clear status and thus end up stateless if the regime wants to do that.
Yeah I read up on this case a little more. It’s interesting in an infuriating way. When the district court issued an injunction, the Trump administration appealed only that. So right now, the Court can’t consider the merits of the case. They can only rule on the injunction. Pretty much all of the Justices seem to have indicated that they would really rather get at the merits of the case ASAP instead of dicking around on procedural bullshit, but there’s not a lot they can do, because the Trump administration is very deliberately not appealing aspects of lower court rulings that would enable SCOTUS to get at the merits.
At the same time, there is a very real issue about lower district courts issuing broad injunctions that apply nationwide, and when that is and isn’t appropriate. And this shit happened when Biden was President, too, where Republicans filed lawsuits in Republican friendly courts in order to get nationwide injunctions. SCOTUS would prefer both sides stop doing that, because they don’t like that kind of forum shopping.
If real people’s lives weren’t so immediately in danger from this shit, I’d find the whole thing legally fascinating. As it is, SCOTUS needs to uphold the injunctions here, because there’s not really any undoing of deportations if they lift the injunction, people who were once citizens get deported, and then when the full case finally does make it to SCOTUS, they declare the EO unconstitutional. That’s the whole reason for an injunction: that permanent harm will be done if the law or EO is allowed to be enforced.
Would it be reasonable for SCOTUS to decide that the lower court injunctions are too sweeping but that the solution in this case is for the Court to make the injunction national itself? Because that would solve the problem.
Though in contrast to previous forum-shopping, a national injunction for this particular EO seems appropriate from a district judge because if it only applied to that district, the regime would just detain and move legal citizens out of that district.
So if my grandparents didn’t enter legally- my parents wouldn’t be citizens- would that mean that I’m not a citizen too?
That’s what the government lawyers aren’t hiding as well as they think they are. They will keep the rules vague enough that if they want to declare someone not a citizen, they can.
That’s exactly why SCOTUS needs to get at the merits of this ASAP. Because as it is, they could declare Kamala Harris a noncitizen and deport her.
But…the founding fathers didn’t follow US immigration law.
Checkmate, motherfuckers!
An analyst on the radio was also saying, in all seriousness, that SCOTUS judges may also have a more personal reason that they’d like judges to stop doing this: Emergency Nationwide injunctions are more likely to require SCOTUS intervention and that can interrupt their summer break schedule.