The MAGA era
— and the three latest Trump appointees to the Court
— has resulted in a new, gruesome project:
giving Trump whatever he wants.
This toxic combination of bigotry and fealty has created a Court that uses all its might to attack the less powerful
while coddling those who already have it all — particularly Donald Trump.
It’s a Court with a very clear vision of who matters and who needs protection.
The majority opinion in "Trump v. CASA", the birthright citizenship case,
was honestly inevitable,
a culmination of all the ways in which the conservative justices have warped the Court in order to serve Trump.
Indeed, the Court’s previous term will go down in infamy as the one in which they gave Trump permission to do whatever he wants
by inventing sweeping #presidential #immunity.
One year later, Trump needed his reliable pals on the Supreme Court to step in on the #birthright #citizenship case
because four federal district courts and three federal appeals courts had enjoined him from implementing his executive order eliminating birthright citizenship.
That shouldn’t be a surprise, or even remotely controversial.
There’s simply no world where an executive order can undo the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship
-- and since the order was so obviously unconstitutional, the lower courts issued universal, or #nationwide, #injunctions to block the policy.
Those nationwide injunctions stopped Trump from stripping citizenship from babies,
even in states that were eager to let him do so.
Twenty conservative states filed an amicus brief urging the Court to let Trump’s executive order go into effect.
But the conservatives on the Court couldn't face grappling with whether Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional.
Indeed, they very much want you to know that the administration’s requests did not ask the Court to rule on the birthright citizenship issue at all. Heavens, no.
This is just about whether lower courts can issue universal, or nationwide, injunctions.
This is, to put it charitably,
️a self-serving lie,
a way for the conservatives to soothe themselves,
to pretend they aren’t responsible for Trump turning the immense machinery of his immigration crackdown on literal babies.
No, all they did was strip the lower courts of the ability to issue universal injunctions.
Of course, once those injunctions are narrowed,
the administration is free to proceed on its plans to deprive babies of citizenship anywhere the narrower injunctions don’t apply
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-casa-scotus-birthright-citizenship-ruling
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