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Someone should ask Usha Vance about that too. It is unclear if her immigrant parents were citizens when she was born either.
Trump’s Executive Order eliminating birthright citizenship isn’t retroactive so they are safe. For now. It wouldn’t take much of a shift for Trump to decide that he wants to deport American citizens, so anything could happen. In fact, he’s already said he wants to do that.
“The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You’ve got to build about five more places,” Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mused on Fareed Zakaria this morning that the Supremes may have taken this case originally with the intention of deciding it on the merits but found they didn’t have a majority to overturn so negotiated a change to the procedural issue. It’s possible that this explains why the Sotomayor and Jackson were so angry although they could also have been reacting to the whole “unitary executive” bs and the fact that they know which way the wind is blowing on this. (Meaning they intend to overturn eventually.)
Who knows? The Court is so opaque that all you can do is try to read tea leaves. I wish I could feel confident that Gonzales’s suspicions are correct. Unfortunately, the Roberts court has shown its true colors and it would be foolish to get your hopes up.
Gonzales said that he is a fan of the Unitary Executive but acknowledged that it requires a president with integrity for it to work and that Donald Trump doesn’t have integrity. Yeah, no shit:
