Originally published at: Justices Express Skepticism over Birthright Citizenship Case They Never Should Have Taken in The First Place
The conservative justices on Wednesday were, at times, appropriately skeptical of the Trump administration’s patched-together attempt to undermine birthright citizenship, a bedrock of American life for well over a century. That they treated his theory as legitimate at all is a sign of how amenable they are to President Trump’s whims, given that his argument…
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Hard disagree that they shouldn’t have taken it. Sometimes, they’ve just got to go in and cut out the tumor, lest it metastasize and get out of control. This is one of those cases.
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Been reading Without Precedent by Lisa Graves, a book that unmasks the smiling, genial John Roberts to reveal his lifelong persistence in subverting the constitution and destroying democracy as we have known it. It’s a damning account that shows just how evil this grinning creep really is.
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When he asked Sauer how common an occurrence this actually is, Sauer responded that “no one knows for sure” but that it might be on the order of millions.
Of course the Justices could as just one person familiar with “birth tourism” and that would be Trump. Ask him how many pregnant Russian women reside in Trump Tower and his other properties.
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Tiny piece of trivia:
I had to look it up but Wong and Wang are not two romanizations of the same word – Wong Kim Ark was 黄金德 (in pinyin Huang Jinde) while Cecillia Wang is 王德棻 (in pinyin Wang Defen) – they both have 德 “virtue” in their given names, though.
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My prediction: the Court will rule 7-2 or by an even more lopsided majority to uphold birthright citizenship. If Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett are asking extremely hostile questions of Trump regime “lawyer” Sauer, they’re toast. The Court is awful, but it won’t turn millions of Americans into stateless pawns.
That is all.
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Towards the end of the two-hour argument, some of which Trump listened to in person
Raise your hand if you’re surprised he couldn’t last two hours. Unless the proceedings feature pictures (many of himself) and is broken into segments by ads for MyPillow and Leaffilter gutter covers his interest wanes quickly.
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Stephen make him go?
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Trump drops blatantly false outburst after storming out of Supreme Court hearing - Raw Story
Apparently, he was not happy with the way things went this morning.
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Petulant two year olds act that way. Donnie acts like a fool on April Fool’s Day.
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Hope he is correct.
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*He bemoaned the modern era’s “unenthusiastic” immigration enforcement, and questioned whether the Framers intended more exceptions to the Citizenship Clause to crop up in the years and decades after it was written. *
“What we’re dealing with here is something that was basically unknown at the time when the 14th Amendment was adopted, which is illegal immigration,” [Alito] said
Now apply the same logic to assault weapons, Alito, you worthless hack.
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If Trump can rewrite constitutional amendments with an executive order the republic is over.
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Or trying to get help from Medicaid or SNAP or . . .
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It was time for a diaper change so he left when he shouldn’t have been there to begin with. This is what he had to get back too:
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When Cecillia Wang brought up the Know Nothings and Irish immigrants it called to mind Boss Tweed, which I thought was ironic given that our own Boss Trump was there in person today.
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We Irish can be very surprised that we are brought up for good reasons. How proud would my grandfather be. He became a US citizen on July 30, 1900. He was not born in the US but emigrated to find a potato and a job. Steven Miller can stick it.
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So I did have to get a passport and a visitors visa for my infant. It sucked, even though we were not at risk for immigration enforcement. BUT - there was no trouble getting healthcare for the infant pre-passport, they were enrolled in the national health system from birth. I don’t think we qualified for any other government benefits
And yes, it did damage my sense of belonging to the community i was living in to be told that my baby wasn’t good enough for citizenship
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