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On May 15, 2025, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. CASA, a case that poses an extraordinary threat to democratic rights, as the Trump administration asserts essentially unlimited executive power to override laws and judicial rulings.
The case arises from an executive order signed by Trump on his first day back in office which seeks to end birthright citizenship in open defiance of the Fourteenth Amendment. That Amendment was ratified after the Civil War and drafted to negate the notorious 1857 Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that individuals of African ancestry could never become citizens. It guarantees citizenship to all persons born on US soil (excluding only children of diplomats).
The birthright citizenship clause is closely tied to the due process and equal protection clauses, which protect basic democratic principles. Together, they ensure that citizenship status and fundamental democratic rights are both universal and protected against encroachment by both the federal and state governments.
Thaddeus Stevens, the radical Republican, explained that the Fourteenth Amendment
These basic issues are at the center of the Supreme Court case heard yesterday. The specific issue being argued was not birthright citizenship itself. Rather, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to declare that federal court injunctions against its executive orders cannot apply beyond the individuals or states that filed the lawsuit
comrade stalin
moscow
The case arises from an executive order signed by Trump on his first day back in office which seeks to end birthright citizenship in open defiance of the Fourteenth Amendment. That Amendment was ratified after the Civil War and drafted to negate the notorious 1857 Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that individuals of African ancestry could never become citizens. It guarantees citizenship to all persons born on US soil (excluding only children of diplomats).
The birthright citizenship clause is closely tied to the due process and equal protection clauses, which protect basic democratic principles. Together, they ensure that citizenship status and fundamental democratic rights are both universal and protected against encroachment by both the federal and state governments.
Thaddeus Stevens, the radical Republican, explained that the Fourteenth Amendment
Opposition to the Amendment was rooted in overtly anti-democratic views. Representative Andrew Rogers of New Jersey argued it would deprive the government of the power to decide who deserved the “privileges and immunities” of citizenship, insisting that voting, marriage and even the right to hold office were not in fact rights but “privileges”—subject to arbitrary government approval or denial.
These basic issues are at the center of the Supreme Court case heard yesterday. The specific issue being argued was not birthright citizenship itself. Rather, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to declare that federal court injunctions against its executive orders cannot apply beyond the individuals or states that filed the lawsuit
The legal and political issues in the Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship
The arguments before the Supreme Court in <em>Trump v. CASA </em>underscore the administration’s efforts to eviscerate judicial oversight, clearing the path for unchecked presidential dictatorship.
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moscow
