Chuck Darwin<p>The MAGA era <br>— and the three latest Trump appointees to the Court <br>— has resulted in a new, gruesome project: <br>❌giving Trump whatever he wants.</p><p>🔥This toxic combination of bigotry and fealty has created a Court that uses all its might to attack the less powerful <br>while coddling those who already have it all — particularly Donald Trump. </p><p>It’s a Court with a very clear vision of who matters and who needs protection.</p><p>The majority opinion in "Trump v. CASA", the birthright citizenship case, <br>was honestly inevitable, <br>a culmination of all the ways in which the conservative justices have warped the Court in order to serve Trump. </p><p>Indeed, the Court’s previous term will go down in infamy as the one in which they gave Trump permission to do whatever he wants <br>by inventing sweeping <a href="https://c.im/tags/presidential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presidential</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immunity</span></a>.</p><p>One year later, Trump needed his reliable pals on the Supreme Court to step in on the <a href="https://c.im/tags/birthright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birthright</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a> case <br>because four federal district courts and three federal appeals courts had enjoined him from implementing his executive order eliminating birthright citizenship. </p><p>That shouldn’t be a surprise, or even remotely controversial. </p><p>There’s simply no world where an executive order can undo the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship<br>-- and since the order was so obviously unconstitutional, the lower courts issued universal, or <a href="https://c.im/tags/nationwide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationwide</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/injunctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>injunctions</span></a> to block the policy.</p><p>Those nationwide injunctions stopped Trump from stripping citizenship from babies, <br>even in states that were eager to let him do so. </p><p>Twenty conservative states filed an amicus brief urging the Court to let Trump’s executive order go into effect.</p><p>But the conservatives on the Court couldn't face grappling with whether Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional. </p><p>Indeed, they very much want you to know that the administration’s requests did not ask the Court to rule on the birthright citizenship issue at all. Heavens, no. </p><p>This is just about whether lower courts can issue universal, or nationwide, injunctions.</p><p>This is, to put it charitably, <br>⭐️a self-serving lie, <br>a way for the conservatives to soothe themselves, <br>to pretend they aren’t responsible for Trump turning the immense machinery of his immigration crackdown on literal babies. </p><p>No, all they did was strip the lower courts of the ability to issue universal injunctions. </p><p>Of course, once those injunctions are narrowed, <br>the administration is free to proceed on its plans to deprive babies of citizenship anywhere the narrower injunctions don’t apply<br><a href="https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-casa-scotus-birthright-citizenship-ruling" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">publicnotice.co/p/trump-casa-s</span><span class="invisible">cotus-birthright-citizenship-ruling</span></a></p>