May 16 from https://www.msnbc.com/ Left

Trump's authoritarianism creeps into SCOTUS birthright citizenship hearing

This is an adapted excerpt from MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin’s May 15 comments on the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship case. On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship, but the biggest takeaway from those arguments has nothing to do with birthright citizenship at all. Instead, perhaps the most important moment of...

May 16 from https://www.theatlantic.com Left

The Birthright-Citizenship Case Isn’t Really About Birthright Citizenship

Yesterday, during an oral argument spanning nearly two and a half hours, the Supreme Court justices grilled the newly installed Solicitor General D. John Sauer over the Trump administration’s request that it be allowed to enforce a flagrantly unconstitutional executive order ending birthright citizenship. Sauer repeatedly refused to say how the case could be swiftly resolved. Instead, he...

May 15 from https://www.msnbc.com/ Left

The Supreme Court hearing exposed the illegality of Trump’s bid to kill birthright citizenship

Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing over President Donald Trump’s attempt to curb the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship technically wasn’t about whether his attempt is legal. But while the hearing exposed his attempt’s illegality and his administration’s lack of confidence in its legality, it’s unclear when the justices will issue a definitive ruling on whether it’s legal or...

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