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HOW IT STARTED:
@AAGDhillon: There’s literally a chair set up at SCOTUS for our presidents to sit in for oral argument. Your separation of powers nonsense is more imitation pearl-clutching hauteur.
Ted Lieu: Dear @AAGDhillon: Please, please, please get trump to sit in the SCOTUS oral argument. I want the conservative Justices to have the direct reminder to their faces that trump believes they are his pawns and that they exist to do his bidding. Go ahead, try to intimidate the Court.
HOW IT ENDED:
Ted Lieu: Thank you @AAGDhillon for getting trump to the Supreme Court oral argument today. Worked out exactly as I predicted.
I never noticed that Gumshoe had a photo of Maggey in his evidence locker that’s actually kinda sweet 😭
When opposing is new and scared they’re going to lose, so they just keep presenting, but it’s like:
“It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution,” the chief justice told Solicitor General John Sauer at Wednesday’s hearing on Trump’s order.
Apr. 1, 2026, 3:06 PM EDT
By Jordan Rubin
If there’s one line to take away from Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing in the birthright citizenship case, it might be this: “It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.”
Those words were spoken by Chief Justice John Roberts, who I predict will be with — and will possibly lead — the majority of the court in rejecting President Donald Trump’s bid to single-handedly redefine that citizenship.
Roberts’ words came as a retort to an argument from Solicitor General John Sauer, who sought to defend Trump’s executive order in the face of the Constitution, the law and precedent that have long stood for a basic premise of American life: If you’re born here, you’re a citizen.
During Sauer’s opening remarks, the former Trump personal lawyer referred to “birth tourism” while complaining that “uncounted thousands of foreigners from potentially hostile nations have flocked to give birth in the United States in recent decades, creating a whole generation of American citizens abroad with no meaningful ties to the United States.”
Later in the hearing, Roberts returned to the subject, asking Sauer: “Do you have any information about how common that is, or how significant a problem it is?”
Sauer called the question a “great” one but said that “no one knows for sure.”
That was an odd way to start an answer about a claim that even partly underpins the government’s attempt to redefine what it means to be an American.
The solicitor general then turned to citing “media reports” that estimate more than 1 million people coming from China, as well as a congressional report about“Russian elites” going to Miami through “birth tourism companies.” He said the “media reported” that “based on Chinese media reports,” there have been at least 500 such companies in China.
“Having said all that,” Roberts replied, “you do agree that that has no impact on the legal analysis before us?”
That’s a judicial way of saying it’s irrelevant.
Sauer maintained that “we’re in a new world now, as Justice [Samuel] Alito pointed out to, where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who’s a U.S. citizen.”
That’s when the chief justice replied, “Well, it’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.”
If the court holds true to that principle, then Trump will lose this case.
While key justices in the Republican-appointed majority questioned the position of both Sauer and the American Civil Liberties Union’s Cecillia Wang, the government should be feeling less confident than the ACLU in the outcome.
The president couldn’t get back to the White House quickly enough!
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on whether all children born in the United States can continue to automatically receive citi
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on whether all children born in the United States can continue to automatically receive citizenship.
The decision, not expected for months, could reshape what had been a longtime, constitutionally enshrined practice that has been challenged by the Trump administration.
Public opinion on the issue is complicated. Americans are heavily in favor of granting citizenship to children born to parents who were also born in the U.S. — or to those who immigrated to the U.S. legally. But they are split on — or much less in support of — automatic citizenship for children born to parents who immigrated illegally.
Okay I think that’s enough archaeology for one night