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Jilly_in_VA

(14,400 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 10:58 AM Thursday

How Roberts' retort sums up the case against Trump's birthright citizenship order

If there’s one line to take away from Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing in the birthright citizenship case, it might be this: “It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.”

Those words were spoken by Chief Justice John Roberts, who I predict will be with — and will possibly lead — the majority of the court in rejecting President Donald Trump’s bid to single-handedly redefine that citizenship.

Roberts’ words came as a retort to an argument from Solicitor General John Sauer, who sought to defend Trump’s executive order in the face of the Constitution, the law and precedent that have long stood for a basic premise of American life: If you’re born here, you’re a citizen.

During Sauer’s opening remarks, the former Trump personal lawyer referred to “birth tourism” while complaining that “uncounted thousands of foreigners from potentially hostile nations have flocked to give birth in the United States in recent decades, creating a whole generation of American citizens abroad with no meaningful ties to the United States.”

Later in the hearing, Roberts returned to the subject, asking Sauer: “Do you have any information about how common that is, or how significant a problem it is?”

https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-roberts-new-world-same-constitution

Seems you can't change the Constitution with an executive order after all, Shitler!

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How Roberts' retort sums up the case against Trump's birthright citizenship order (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Thursday OP
Imagine THIS SCOTUS considering problems instead of right wing ideology bucolic_frolic Thursday #1
That is what this ruling will be about : FalloutShelter Thursday #2
Someone is going to make money on T Shirts saying: "Its' a new world. It's the same constitution." - John Roberts yellowcanine Thursday #3

bucolic_frolic

(55,194 posts)
1. Imagine THIS SCOTUS considering problems instead of right wing ideology
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:02 AM
Thursday

Maybe some Justices have discovered their rulings have implications on the real world?

FalloutShelter

(14,482 posts)
2. That is what this ruling will be about :
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:02 AM
Thursday

It's not really about birthright citizenship at a all.

It is about whether or not the executive can void any, or all, of the Constitution by Presidential fiat.

Plain and simple: If SCOTUS finds for the toxic psychotic in the Oval we no longer have a Constitution.

PERIOD- EOS- Put up the head stone-

RIP USA






yellowcanine

(36,798 posts)
3. Someone is going to make money on T Shirts saying: "Its' a new world. It's the same constitution." - John Roberts
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:41 AM
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