"This is an unprecedented attack on the federal courts, waged by the highest court in the land."

[dalton99a]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/27/2330474/-A-bleak-end-to-a-bleak-Supreme-Court-term

A bleak end to a bleak Supreme Court term
Friday, June 27, 2025 at 4:00:04p CDT
By Lisa Needham

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After every lower court ruled against Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship, calling it unconstitutional, the Trump administration deployed its tried-and-true method for getting a favorable ruling: Run to the Supreme Court and demand emergency relief to be allowed to do unconstitutional things ASAP while litigation plays out in the lower courts.

Put simply, the Supreme Court has given Trump an unimaginable gift. All of his obviously criminal, obviously unconstitutional actions can go forward anywhere, against anyone, save for whatever narrow slice of people are protected by the preliminary injunction.

As far as birthright citizenship, this decision will inevitably create a patchwork of laws. Your child can be stripped of their birthright citizenship in, say, Texas, but not in Minnesota, which brought a challenge to Trump’s order. Does the protection of birthright citizenship travel from one state to another? It’s an absolute nightmare to contemplate from an infrastructural perspective, particularly given that the administration doesn’t care at all if it deports people that it has been ordered not to, and is letting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents run wild and detain U.S. citizens.

Ending birthright citizenship is wildly unpopular: Just 28% of Americans support doing so, according to a recent NPR/Ipsos poll. And Trump knows he’d never get enough votes to overturn or amend the 14th Amendment, which would first require Congress to pass a law doing so and then three-fourths of all state legislatures to ratify it. But what the conservative justices did instead is to functionally say that Trump can behave as if his executive order is already law, until some undefined future time when the court gets around to deciding whether it’s legal.

In the meantime, the country is about to face the glee of an administration that knows that it doesn’t matter if their underlying actions are objectively unconstitutional. They get to engage in those actions anywhere, everywhere, that a lower court hasn’t yet stopped them. This is an unprecedented attack on the federal courts, waged by the highest court in the land.

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[walkingman]

1. I suspect it will get worse....The two Bush family appointees, Alito and Thomas

will more than likely resign during Trump's term so he can appoint their replacements.

We are definitely rolling back the progress we have made in the last 75 years.

[pansypoo53219]

2. should be impeached for partisan bullshit.