The Trump administration wants to end automatic birthright citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to take steps to implement its proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship, handing a major win to the government.
The court granted a request by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by judges so that they apply only to states, groups and individuals that sued. That means the birthright citizenship proposal can likely move forward at least in part in the states that challenged it as well as those that did not.
The court was divided on ideological lines, with conservatives in the majority and liberals in dissent.
In a nutshell, and none of this is hyperbole:
I want everybody to let it settle in for a second. If you thought the Presidential Immunity ruling was bad, Trump was just told that he can now literally do whatever the hell he wants, Constitution be damned, and even judges don’t have the authority to stop him. What the fuck do you think he’s going to do with that kind of power?
The Supreme Court said that Trump can do what he wants. Then Congress said Trump can do what he wants. Our pillars of society, who for literal centuries said that they would be there to stand up to tyranny in all its forms, then literally crumbled at Trump’s feet at the first sign of pressure. Then the Supreme Court once again stepped in and said that not only will they not stand up to Trump, they’ll make sure that no other judge in the country has the power to either.
Our democracy has fallen. There will be no rebellion. The shift to authoritarianism was welcomed with open arms by the votes of almost 80 million of our own citizens, the apathy of tens of millions more, and the unwillingness of our society to stand their ground.
The strength and resiliency of modern Democracy in the US has been shown to be nothing more than a paper tiger that can be defeated by even the slightest breeze.
Well, at least “Genocide Joe” or “Kamala the Cop” won’t be killing Gazans.
…oh wait.
Anyway, I have yet to see some of the more strident both-sidering “leftists” apologize for anything they’ve said or done in the run-up to last fall’s election. I’m sure their sense of smug self-satisfaction will be a huge comfort to them as they are being shoved onto trains, er planes, destined to shithole countries that have signed up to outsource the gulags…because, well, “both sides” and “argle bargle something something the status quo”.
small legal question. does that mean that the US constitution is now secondary to federal policy?
and therefore would it be hyperbole to say that rule of law is gone?
It’s worse than that.
This is, I believe, the fourth or fifth amendment to the Constitution that has been hand-waved away once it became inconvenient. Birthright citizenship is no longer a thing. Due Process is no longer a thing. Insurrectionists can run for President. Freedom of the Press can be invalidated by executive order. The US Constitution isn’t even secondary to federal policy. It’s been successfully relegated to a really old piece of paper with some guidelines that can be ignored at will. Our elected officials have made the repeated and affirmative decision to not enforce or defend the Constitution of the United States, and our Supreme Court has given them their blessing to do just that. With nobody willing or able to enforce, uphold, and defend the Constitution, it has all the practical legal weight of a Dr. Seuss book.
And yes, the rule of law is long gone. It’s been replaced with Trump’s Supreme-Court-Endorsed policy of “I’ll do what I want, because fuck you that’s why.”. Stephen Miller literally said as much when he told California’s governor that “You have no say in this. Federal law will be enforced”, and openly dared him to do something about it.