#SCOTUS to rule on what the plain language in the 14th Amendment on birthright citizenship means. The precedent in favor is unambiguous, those against submitted by the administration look shaky, but the Court is not above ignoring precedent when it benefits Trump. https://san.com/cc/is-everyone-born-in-the-us-a-citizen-supreme-court-to-decide/
@maeve_bkk
Wouldn't it be interesting if the court ruled that effectively Trump could decide who is a citizen and who isn't? He could literally deport everyone!
Meh, presidents still require statutory permission to act, even to engage in enforcement action against actual criminals.
It's part of the US design that it requires cooperation of all three branches for the federal government to act against its citizens.
@volkris @maeve_bkk
Are you sure there are still three functioning branches?
Absolutely there are still three functioning branches! The problem isn't in the functioning but in how we use them.
Congress is really the key, as we elect and reelect representatives to represent us, well, turns out we want gridlock, so it's giving us exactly the gridlock we voted for.
It's like a computer that's operating 100% correctly, but we keep putting garbage in and getting garbage out.
