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The Supreme Court’s decision added to the Trump administration’s collection of dubious legal victories on Friday when it handed down a ruling limiting the nationwide injunctions used by judges to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to unwind over a century of settled law on birthright citizenship.
The 6-3 decision in Casa v. Trump would allow Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship to go into effect, despite the fact the order has repeatedly been found to be unconstitutional on its face. The door has been flung open to chaos, and not just for immigrants or children born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants.
The Supreme Court’s decision also set the stage for potentially terrifying new precedents, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D). And it moves Trump one step closer to the kind of autocratic rule that has clearly become his goal in his second term.
“If we allow him to dismantle the 14th Amendment with an executive order, he can do it with any other amendment,” Platkin said during a press conference Friday.
In her dissent, Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson didn’t mince words. With the majority’s decision, any president could enact a lawless order and courts would be potentially hamstrung, or even helpless, to stop it.
“I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the Executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the Court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish, and from there, it is not difficult to predict how this all ends,” Jackson wrote Friday.
Platkin is one of the 22 state attorneys general who fought Trump’s order by suing in federal court, which resulted in four nationwide injunctions. One Washington state judge who issued an injunction, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, told attorneys for the plaintiffs and the Justice Department this spring that in the four decades he had sat on the bench he had never seen such a cut-and-dry question.
“I can’t remember another case where the question presented was clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour said. (Cougenhour was appointed by one of Trump’s idols, former President Ronald Reagan.)
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The 6-3 decision in Casa v. Trump would allow Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship to go into effect, despite the fact the order has repeatedly been found to be unconstitutional on its face. The door has been flung open to chaos, and not just for immigrants or children born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants.
The Supreme Court’s decision also set the stage for potentially terrifying new precedents, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D). And it moves Trump one step closer to the kind of autocratic rule that has clearly become his goal in his second term.
“If we allow him to dismantle the 14th Amendment with an executive order, he can do it with any other amendment,” Platkin said during a press conference Friday.
In her dissent, Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson didn’t mince words. With the majority’s decision, any president could enact a lawless order and courts would be potentially hamstrung, or even helpless, to stop it.
“I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the Executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the Court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish, and from there, it is not difficult to predict how this all ends,” Jackson wrote Friday.
Platkin is one of the 22 state attorneys general who fought Trump’s order by suing in federal court, which resulted in four nationwide injunctions. One Washington state judge who issued an injunction, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, told attorneys for the plaintiffs and the Justice Department this spring that in the four decades he had sat on the bench he had never seen such a cut-and-dry question.
“I can’t remember another case where the question presented was clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour said. (Cougenhour was appointed by one of Trump’s idols, former President Ronald Reagan.)
Trump's Victory In Birthright Citizenship Puts Him 1 Step Closer To Being A King
Even as it will likely result in chaos for anyone lower than the proverbial throne.
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