The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to consider ending the judicial power for sweeping injunctions, but did not ask for a ruling on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship.
President Donald Trump has been ridiculed by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan after he proposed to put an end to birthright citizenship.
Appointed by former President Barack Obama, Kagan chastised the U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer for not challenging Trump’s orders and for challenging the judicial authority to issue nationwide injunctions, a move that makes no sense for the administration’s ultimate goal.
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“Nobody is going to lose this case,” Kagan said, stating that any parent whose kids are denied American citizenship can uphold the 14th Amendment, which guarantees the right of citizenship to anyone born on American soil.
“It’s just, you’re going to have, like, individual by individual by individual, and all of those individuals are going to win,” Kagan said.
She added that the only people who could lose are the ones who cannot afford to challenge the administration.
Before Sauer could answer, Kagan cut him off again.
Sauer began, “The tools that are provided to address hypotheticals like this…”
And a coup de grâce from Justice Kagan:
“This is not a hypothetical. This is happening out there, right? Every court has ruled against you,” Kagan said.
https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/171847/supreme-court-justice-mocks-trumps