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.
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."