Tiffany LiWhen the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that the Supreme Court took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.
Faraiwe@tiffanycli should never have even be considered at a much lower court, in times of sanity.
Roger Moore@faraiwe @tiffanycli
It has to be taken by some court, or it will sit unchallenged. Part of the problem is that the Supreme Court itself made this kind of thing inevitable by preventing lower courts from making nationwide injunctions. That makes it inevitable that much of what Trump does will make its way to the Supreme Court, because it's now the only court allowed to slap him down definitively.
It has to be taken by some court, or it will sit unchallenged. Part of the problem is that the Supreme Court itself made this kind of thing inevitable by preventing lower courts from making nationwide injunctions. That makes it inevitable that much of what Trump does will make its way to the Supreme Court, because it's now the only court allowed to slap him down definitively.
Ken Brucker@tiffanycli I fully expect at least one of the justices to take Trumps side in this.
Alex Lubertozzi 🇺🇦@sigsegv @tiffanycli Two: Alito and Thomas.
P_______X@alexlubertozzi @sigsegv @tiffanycli LOL, I just clicked to say the same. Alito and Thomas are two guaranteed fascist votes for literally any case
Nicole ParsonsWe live in a time where the US Supreme Court is owned by fossil fuel fascist billionaires like Koch Network.
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein bought a coup. Twice.
Kerry Mitchell 🍁@tiffanycli I heard an interview earlier today with Norman Wong, the great grandson of the man who won the original case for birthright citizenship.
"He (Trump) was there to put pressure on the scales of justice. He didn't go there to applaud their hard work. He went there to stare them down, ensure that they didn't interfere with his decrees. That's what I call it, not executive order, imperial decrees."