It’s bad but it’s not over yet. They’re using this as a way to give him what he wants with regard to his propagandized concerns about “activist judges” while leaving the door open to siding with the Constitution on birthright citizenship. At least that’s how it seems unless someone can set me straight.
I don’t think the birthright citizenship issue would clear a hurdle neatly in this court, but it does seem like they’re arguing in two directions. On the one immediate hand, the majority opinion is how individual cases are being used to blanket stop stuff nationwide (which Biden also disliked); on the other, arguing that stripping birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. The former pertains to the case most directly, while the latter is about what the cases are ultimately concerned with and something down the road, but is not what the Supreme Court case they ruled on was actually about. Will it likely lead to problems with citizenship cases? Oh hell yes. But I’ll agree with you that it’s a form of kicking the can down the road, which they do enjoy.
I think we are going to start hearing about cases where babies are being determined to be foreign nationals and they will use those babies as grounds to force the parents out of the country.
It’s bad but it’s not over yet. They’re using this as a way to give him what he wants with regard to his propagandized concerns about “activist judges” while leaving the door open to siding with the Constitution on birthright citizenship. At least that’s how it seems unless someone can set me straight.
I don’t think the birthright citizenship issue would clear a hurdle neatly in this court, but it does seem like they’re arguing in two directions. On the one immediate hand, the majority opinion is how individual cases are being used to blanket stop stuff nationwide (which Biden also disliked); on the other, arguing that stripping birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. The former pertains to the case most directly, while the latter is about what the cases are ultimately concerned with and something down the road, but is not what the Supreme Court case they ruled on was actually about. Will it likely lead to problems with citizenship cases? Oh hell yes. But I’ll agree with you that it’s a form of kicking the can down the road, which they do enjoy.
I think we are going to start hearing about cases where babies are being determined to be foreign nationals and they will use those babies as grounds to force the parents out of the country.