Current Events > Less than two weeks after No Kings Day SCOTUS effectively declares Trump as king

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Well, that sure worked out.
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huh

Yeah, this is the worst timeline

Should've gone with a No Supreme Court protest

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Yesterday Trump i think passed something that basically makes him king. Judges can't go against him anymore and he do whatever he wants. And yesterday he ended Birthright citizenship. You no longer automatically are a citizen just because you are born in the US. He wants to eventually just have certain people even have a chance at being citizens. Mainly, white people

Antifar posted...

Should've gone with a No Supreme Court protest

We really need to get everyone to stop calling them Supreme Court. They don't deserve the dignity.

Protests only work if the leadership fears not getting re-elected/staying in power for any reason.

Birthright citizenship isn't ended completely. They did not rule on the merits of the 14th amendment.

What the court case did was limit nationwide injunctions. So, for example when the birthright citizenship EO was signed, several states issued legal challenges, and the first judge was a Reagan appointee laughing the EO out of the room(Washington state). A lower level court could say "this is unconstitutional" and issue a nationwide injunction saying "until this is determined constitutionally in the court of law, the EO is paused"

But now the USSC said no more lower level courts doing that, so now it's on individual states to file challenges, but they only apply to that state or that circuit court. So if an EO comes down and is unconstitutional, it could be in effect in places/curcuits that will not challenge it(like, say, Texas), but could be paused in places/circuits that are(like, say, California)

I don't know what this will mean in the end, but I do know that if you live in a red state with an AG on their knees, good fucking luck with anything happening now, because you can't rely on a good state to get the ball rolling for a suspension in illegality to come down through their courts.

That's my understanding of it. I get how this works in a way, but the deeper issue means there would be different laws in different areas based on the court challenges, until I guess the USSC hears it, or they decline and let the highest prior court's decision stay.