Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Case That Could Also Sharply Reduce Judicial Power

[Uncle Joe]

The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a case challenging Trump's now-halted order to end birthright citizenship. Multiple lower courts have already ruled that the order is unconstitutional. Trump's lawyers are seeking to reinterpret the 14th Amendment, which has guaranteed citizenship to any child born in the United States for over a century. Legal expert Andrea Flores, an immigration lawyer at FWD.us, says the government's weak arguments about implementing the unprecedented anti-immigrant order indicate that "The administration is not prepared to do this. They just want the authority to reinterpret amendments."

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[Wonder Why]

1. To get enough votes to actually support the Constitution, Roberts will probably give the

MAGAt Justices the limitation on lower courts.

[Uncle Joe]

2. My own gut feeling

is that *rump administration has surpassed a major watershed point insofar as this SC is concerned.

The apparent disdain exhibited by the Executive for the law, the spirit of the law, morals or ethics has wore thin with most of them.

So I don't believe the SC will be giving *rump anything on this as his policies have all become major self evident slippery slopes.