The Trump administration wants to end automatic birthright citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

The Trump administration wants to end automatic birthright citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to take steps to implement its proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship, handing a major win to the government.

The court granted a request by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by judges so that they apply only to states, groups and individuals that sued. That means the birthright citizenship proposal can likely move forward at least in part in the states that challenged it as well as those that did not.

The court was divided on ideological lines, with conservatives in the majority and liberals in dissent.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 days ago

    Isn’t this, like, catastrophic? Now, the government can basically do whatever it wants to people who don’t have the money to challenge it in court themselves, or live in a state that will do it on their behalf.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 days ago

        Eh, close, but that’s still theoretically barely viable until the administration takes the affirmative step of saying “everybody in Denver can’t vote but Rifle’s cool”, at which point anybody in Denver who can’t get a lawyer and a court date is probably screwed,

        So, yeah I guess the difference between rule of law being down for the count and democracy going into hibernation might be entirely semantic in practice

        Do with that as you will

        I’m going to believe a lot of people are about to realize what a bad idea this all is and keep telling people what a bad idea this all is and eventually live in a better world or get dumped in a mass grave for running my mouth. Good luck everybody.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    1·
    11 days ago

    More bad behavior from the Roberts Supreme Court. Write it down, Democrats.

    I’m just going to keep putting “bad behavior / bad behaviour” in the thread of each new piece of SCOTUS’ deliberate ignorance of democracy, constitution and the rule of law. You’ll be able to search my profile for it, and maybe Democrats can do something about it if they can retake power.