Trump Birthright Order Blocked
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades,” Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, said. “I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”
Can’t wait for the “textualists” on the SCOTUS to explain how, “actually, it’s often appropriate to disregard the unambiguous text of a Constitutional Amendment.”
Trump is more likely to lose 9-0 than to win and he knows it.
Passing popular but unconstitutional legislation and having the Courts save you from your own bad policies is a very old political tactic.
The next real hurdle will be what SCOTUS says. I have no idea at this point what will happen and it sucks that’s the reality.
can we just speed this up and get it to SCOTUS so Alito and Thomas can get their bribes, those poor schmucks need a second RV
Full credit to this judge and the legal system working here for now, but it’s so frustrating that Trump does awful shit like this and then we get put in these no win situations where the court either hopefully blocks it (good), but then Americans go see Trump’s not that bad and he will be stopped anyway so why not vote for him, or even worse his horrible policies actually do get implemented and everyone suffers.
It just sucks.
Kinda nice seeing this posted by my local news station on Bluesky. Â
The Trump right wing is hoping to challenge “…in the jurisdiction thereof” This provision had been challenged before about 130 years ago. [U. S. v. Wong Kim Ark.] Child was born in the U.S. of Chinese nationals. At that time the Supreme Court ruled that 14th Amendment grants citizenship to people born in the U.S.
Trump wants to limit and or hope to reverse that ruling from 1898. Their bogus argument is that it only applied to slaves which granted them citizenship. I doubt that any court, including the U.S. Supreme Court is going to uphold in any shape or form this Executive Order. It is dead on arrival.
However, one never knows if they may restrict its application of what “all” meant and make a distinction on the nationality of the parents, thereby giving the GOP led legislature to give an opportunity to pass laws, to babies of parent(s) lawfully present. Something unthinkable has been happening to this country for a while.
Hissy fit comming in 3..2.1
As expected.