Updating this thread with the additional arguments contained in the new brief regarding the birthright citizenship preliminary injunction. The new, slightly longer, brief is here. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... - ThreadSky

courtneymilan.com • 26 days ago

Updating this thread with the additional arguments contained in the new brief regarding the birthright citizenship preliminary injunction.

The new, slightly longer, brief is here.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.574698/gov.uscourts.mdd.574698.40.0.pdf

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rosecityvillain.bsky.social•26 days ago

Have they go into where the line is? Country? Political party? Does it go back generations? How many? Thanks, you're a fucking awesome follow!

legallyhea.bsky.social•26 days ago

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courtneymilan.com•26 days ago

Reminder: Trump’s birthright citizenship EO was temporarily restrained for 15 days by Judge Coughenor; hearings on longer injunctions will be taking place soon, and briefing is happening in advance of that hearing.

courtneymilan.com•26 days ago

I’m not going to be covering old arguments they made, but will cover new information and arguments. Most of the new information can be categorized as taking the old handfuls of feces they tried last time and smearing them around to muddy the waters.

courtneymilan.com•26 days ago

(Sorry, I'm reading a large part of the Congressional record from 1866 to try to verify something that's not clear.)

courtneymilan.com•26 days ago

Right, okay. I've figured it out. So I'm going to introduce the claim, and then provide context as to why the lawyers should be forced to absorb portions of the Congressional Globe by means of an inserted suppository.

courtneymilan.com•26 days ago

As a reminder: in the last brief, Trump argued that the Civil Rights Act and the 14th amendment should be interpreted to mean the exact same thing. I'm not going to retread that ground, but you can see what I said there.

https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3lgh5cnjocc2j

courtneymilan.com•26 days ago

Now I want to point to a very obscure sleight of hand that the Trump lawyers pull in this version.

Here is a new claim they make about interpreting the language of the 14th amendment based on the Congressional history.