BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/judge-in-seattle-blocks-trump-order-on-birthright-citizenship-nationwide/
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While I wholeheartedly agree with all competent lawyers that the EO is facially unconstitutional, I did wonder about the standing issue for states to sue for relief.
Will that be a problem going forward?
https://bsky.app/profile/shipwreck75.bsky.social/post/3lggy2jdork2z
https://bsky.app/profile/emmynawjoopinga.bsky.social/post/3lgglst7rek2m
With Gorsuch on the court, I actually feel pretty confident this one won't survive.
State agencies that issue birth certificates and coordinate with SSA, hospitals, and birthing centers have to prepare for the changes now.
On top of that, states now have thousands of births no longer eligible for Medicaid.
And mainly it’s to coordinate the lawsuits.
And there’s logistical issues that states - when asking for, say, SSNs for newborns - would follow the actual law and not your hypothetical lawless order to DOJ.
The President doesn't make the law.
Thank you.
B) those shit 💩 institutions are affirmative action for mediocre rich white people.
“SCHUMATE looks down and sighs. There’s no way he can defend this. All he can muster is:
SCHUMATE
(low, defeated)
It absolutely is.”
We need to stop analyzing this through a purely logical lens. This is a direct attack on our entire system
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
— Thomas Jefferson
Wiki's article on the 14th Amendment is pretty clear on how the amendment was crafted specifically to prevent what the administration is trying to do because Congress & SCOTUS had done this dance before.
https://www.justice.gov/file/147026-0/dl
But, under Loper Bright, Executive's interpretations deserve no deference and the plausibility standard implies no obligation for the courts to follow suit😎
Shumate is an idiot-the answer to the judge's question is "My personal opinion is not relevant. My client, the USA, believes this order is constitutional and I'm here to advocate for its position"
https://bsky.app/profile/dodgerfanla.bsky.social/post/3lggjqk2cbc2o
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g-s1-44411/birthright-citizenship-immigration-trump-border
this is such disgraceful behavior from an officer of the court.
Lawyer-“cuz thats what they told me”
But who watches the watchmen?
This wasn't a remotely close call.
For reasons.
Extract value to benefit shareholders at the cost of the long term viability of the business, exploit employees, and provide customers with the least value at the highest price they can be squeezed to pay.
Push every single limit no matter how insane. If you push in every direction all at once, you might steal ground in other directions while we focus on the most outrageous bullshit
Our society is critically vulnerable to this and we need a solution years ago
Attack the already marginalized communities. Easy to do, easy distraction.
Distraction from? The enormous grift operation underway ie. Crypto ect.. that media is barely covering.
Trump is doing a good job copying the Viktor Orban method of self fulfillment.
Of course it harms real people.
It’s disgusting that they harm innocent people, vilify people because of their skin color to DISTRACT from all the crimes they are committing.
THIS is a pure authoritarian tactic.
They use racism as a way of DIVIDING people — to DISTRACT.
Full statement here:
https://www.change.org/WeThePeople-DemandActionNow
- Upton Sinclair
And the more people cower in front of him, the more right he is.
You now may begin to state the government’s case.”
This has already been a successful distraction from actual issues, unfortunately for Geidner & other Bluesky legal analysts. But it never had any possible chance of succeeding.
He's gonna be as shitty as we let him be.
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/brett-shumate
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Donny Boy - 0
Rule-of-law - 1
There has to be a cost for complicity.
Lawyer has an audience of 1
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/brett-shumate
Formerly of the worlds largest Republican law firm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Day
😞
I can't wrap my head around the level of stupid required to advance an EO that explicitly ignores the plain text of the fucking constitution.
And they're not stupid, they're just craven and eager to waste taxpayer money on spinning wheels.
Imagine being so racist that you are willing to take a huge pay cut to try to punish people of color
There is no justice involved
*If you just ignore the plain text of the Constitution and 125 years of Supreme Court precedent.
1. Not a bot
2. How about you either stay on topic or don’t bother to contribute
3. People here illegally are not subject to our jurisdiction and should be removed
2. Lol
3. People with citizenship are both here legally and subject to the jurisdiction of the courts so your argument makes no sense.
Why these attorneys want to destroy their reputation for that clown God only knows.
We need the entire 14th Amendment.
Then surely it's not possible for them to "be in the country illegally"
Foreign Embassies and Consulates are foreign soil but if they use the local hospital, American!
Let's put the blame where it belongs: at the very top of the 🟠 pile 😉