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.
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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.