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Trump Showed Up to Supreme Court and it BACKFIRED
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Trump just became the first sitting president to show up at the Supreme Court and it did not go well for him. Trump was there for the birthright citizenship case, his executive order that says that if your parents are undocumented or here temporarily,
you're not even an American citizen even if you were born here. It would affect more than a quarter million babies every year in overturn with the 14th Amendment as meant since 1868. And what you saw were both conservative and liberal justices skeptical. how this would even work in practice, saying, is this happening in the delivery room? Right, and that is every lower court that's looked at this
has struck it down with the administration's argument hinging on five words in the 14th Amendment, subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Team Trump, they say that that excludes children and non-citizens, but the ACLU's lawyer flipped it, arguing that the legal question is about the baby.
Is the child born here subject to US law? The answer is obviously yes. And even the conservative justices seemed very skeptical of Trump's argument. Really the only justice who seemed open to Trump's side was Clarence Thomas, who argued that the 14th Amendment was about the babies of slaves and nothing more. And while Trump, he sat through his own lawyer getting grilled for an hour, then he just got up and left
the moment that the other side started talking. But as far as what happens next, But as far as what happens next, the ruling's not expected till early summer.
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