The EO about the 14th Amendent, suspending birthright citizenship, has made it to court, and didnt do well.
Judge Coughenour is an 84-year-old Reagan appointee. He sounds shocked and appalled that the Justice Department is defending Trump’s brazenly unconstitutional attack on birthright citizenship—condemning not only the president but also the lawyers lying on his behalf.
It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.”
“The Constitution is not something with which the government may play policy games. If the government wants to change the exceptional American grant of birthright citizenship, it needs to amend the Constitution itself. … That’s how the rule of law works.”
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