Summary
The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. if their parents are unlawfully present or have temporary legal status.
The order, set to take effect in 30 days, conflicts with the 14th Amendment, which guarantees birthright citizenship, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1898.
Critics argue the order creates a “subclass” of noncitizens, undermining fairness and equality.
The lawsuit seeks to block the order, which also directs agencies to stop issuing passports and recognizing affected children as citizens.
This is probably a good time to remind everyone to donate (if you have the means) to the ACLU and other groups fighting the good fight.
I struggle with this. I would under most circumstances agree and I get that we should be kicking and screaming as this happens. I just don’t know if even completely bank rolling the ACLU will help.
Not going to pretend to have the best legal understanding but doesn’t this eventually bubble up to the supreme court who will likely side with this current administration?
Unfortunately, our main recourse is a protest. Not a typical protest either. We need to have any citizen against this current administration to stop participating in consumerism. Buy the essentials, do whatever you need to do to survive, but stop there. No Prime day spending. No Super Bowl spending. No Memorial Day or Labor Day spending. Do this until all stocks tank. This will get the attention we want.
In his first term, Trump had the lowest win rate at the supreme Court of any president since FDR.
The average win rate for presidents over that period was 65.2%. Trump fared the worst, with a win rate of 43.5%, followed by former President Barack Obama, who had a win rate of 52.4%, and President Joe Biden, who had a win rate of 56.5% through the court’s 2021 term.
The court is filled with his lackeys this time, and they’ve stopped hiding their corruption.
I get that. But trump has continued to lose cases at the supreme court. Not all of them to be sure. But it clearly shows that it isn’t a complete waste for these agencies to litigate.
But what are the numbers behind those percentages? Did Trump just throw more at the wall to see what would stick?
Probably both are needed. Protests alert our leaders to what we do and don’t like, which can help to reduce terrible legislation. Groups like the ACLU offer legal challenges to things that have already passed. Many people can’t do both - but could do one of them.