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posted ago by rentfREEEE_since2016 ago by rentfREEEE_since2016 +34 / -0

So as I read it, the Trump admin, once again, was super sloppy with the birthright citizenship executive order. To start, an EO has no staying power, and can this have been overturned in a subsequent administration. But in addition to that they rushed Trump v Barbara to the scotus. If you listen to The oral arguments for Trump, they did not have a strong arguments for changing existing case law. Dredd Scott, Wong kim ark, . Not sufficiently addressed at all. The entire argument appears to be “semantics”. Maybe they believed they could win based on the outcome of Trump vs. CASA (ie: a lower court cannot issue a universal injunction against an executive order)?

WOW, what a colossal fuck up THAT was. basically Trump not only lost, but cast concrete blocks around our ankles for fucking decades on this. If they wanted to win this case, then the lynchpin of this argument needed to be overturning The Kim Ark case, in the same way that they overturned Roe V Wade. But they didn’t. Gorsuch, who actually was in the dissent, even points out that Trumps argument is based on semantics citing “Roman law” (they literally cite emperor Justinian) holy shit dude.

What the fuck is this admin doing?” Tried our best” isn’t good enough. Get serious for fucks sake.