Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end birthright citizenship

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Published 3:00 PM EDT, Thu March 13, 2025


CNN — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court in a series of emergency appeals Thursday to allow him to move forward with plans to end birthright citizenship, elevating a fringe legal theory that several lower courts have resoundingly rejected.

In a series of emergency appeals, the Trump administration argued that lower courts had gone too far in handing down nationwide injunctions blocking the controversial policy, and it asked the justices to limit the impact of those orders.

Appeals courts have brushed aside the Trump administration’s request to pause lower court rulings that imposed nationwide injunctions on an executive order he signed on the first day of his second term.

“Universal injunctions have reached epidemic proportions since the start of the current administration,” the Justice Department told the Supreme Court in its emergency appeals. “Those universal injunctions prohibit a Day 1 Executive Order from being enforced anywhere in the country, as to ‘hundreds of thousands’ of unspecified individuals who are ‘not before the court nor identified by the court.’”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/birthright-citizenship-trump-supreme-court/index.html

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Just breaking everywhere.

[FalloutShelter]

1. Can we throw Baron out of the country?

Asking for a friend.

[Irish_Dem]

4. The other Trump kids had a foreign born mother too.

Except Tiffany.

[FalloutShelter]

6. Oh goody. I forgot.

[IronLionZion]

39. Donald also had a foreign born mother

she was born in Scotland

[Irish_Dem]

45. He and Musk are both illegal aliens. Destroying the US.

[Captain Zero]

26. Baron? was born B4 babyMama was naturalized

If not him, then one of them.
If he wins this one of those kids is OUT.

[Deuxcents]

2. What is the emergency? There's a constitutional amendment or does that matter any more?

[Moostache]

3. Why is absolutely fucking EVERYTHING an emergency with this asshat?

Jesus fuck...I just want the actuarial tables to speak up here and claim that piece of fucking shit already....PLEASE?!!!???!!

[Aristus]

7. Because if you don't keep rattling the cages of the Trumpanzees,

they're going to stop screeching and flinging their shit.

The last thing Trump wants is for his degraded, semi-evolved simian followers to sit around, contentedly gnawing on apples and bananas, not going to the polls, not threatening Democrats and liberals, etc.

If one's useful idiots aren't useful, then they're just idiots.

[republianmushroom]

27. You nailed it.

[JohnSJ]

5. This will determine if our Constitution is completely gone.

[hlthe2b]

8. Fking POS.

Honestly... Someone do SOMETHING. Is there no insane asylum to place him?

[Captain Zero]

28. Saturday is the Ides of March

For all you Shakespeare aficionados.

[hlthe2b]

30. To whom will we direct our "Et Tu Brute?"

[DonCoquixote]

36. schumer

you know why

[Retrograde]

9. Why stop with one amendment?

If the Supremes give in to him this month, he'll be back with an "emergency" request to abolish any other parts he doesn't like - the 1st, 16th, 17th, 19th, and 22nd come to mind. Then his minions can start on the body of the constitution itself.

[33taw]

11. And, pretty soon we will only have the 2nd amendment.

[Captain Zero]

29. This case is in the body of the Constitution

Already.

[thesquanderer]

10. re: "Universal injunctions have reached epidemic proportions since the start of the current administration"

Yes, well, then maybe you should stop doing stupid shit.

[Qutzupalotl]

12. I wish I could say I had faith that the SCOTUS would decline to hear his appeal,

but after throwing out the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment and granting immunity for official acts, I am bracing for the worst.

[MLWR]

13. So now Comrade Krasnov wants to amend the Constitution by fiat.

Fuck that.

[pfitz59]

14. If SCrOTUS agrees with Trump the EO's become law

The injunctions are our biggest defense.

[KPN]

17. Hell, if SCOTUS agrees with Trump on this

kiss the Constitution goodbye. They will have ruled that the President has superiority over the Constitution itself (Amendment 14 to be specific. We will no longer have a Constitution that means a damn in the face of a Presidential preference for it saying or meaning something else. Article 14 is pretty clear.

[angrychair]

15. If they give him this

What is to prevent him from being able to remove or restrict any rights in the Constitution?

[JCMach1]

16. 0 recourse apart from Impeachment of SCOTUS or POTUS

[markodochartaigh]

23. I think that that is exactly the plan.

He is trying outlandish actions just to show that he can do them. When he has pushed enough laws far enough no one will be able to stand against him on anything. It is part of the "unitary executive" plan.

[WestMichRad]

40. Or he could simply declare the constitution to be null and void now.

The SCOTUS 6 would perhaps rule that there’s nothing in the constitution that explicitly says he can’t do that. Except for that pesky oath of office thing… just words, pffft.

[kskiska]

42. He wanted to move the original Constitution from the National Archives

to the Oval Office (then presumably to Mar-a-Lago). Or perhaps the move was to just make it disappear altogether.

[paleotn]

18. Cheap, two bit lawyers...

with their heads firmly up the orange moron's ass. Good luck with that, assholes.

[Grins]

19. "Universal injunctions (at) epidemic proportions" Why do you suppose that is...?

Flagrant constitutional assaults of epidemic proportions?

[Captain Zero]

31. Every Trump term brings an epidemic

For some motherfucking reason.

[GiqueCee]

20. And the evil sonofabitch...

... wants to RE-segregate the Armed Forces, for Christ's sake! There is no bottom to his cesspool of malice and depravity.

Even the grotesquely corrupt Sinister Six on the SCOTUS can't concoct a rationale for letting the Orange Asshole unilaterally rescind a Constitutional Amendment.

[AllyCat]

21. This is our CONSTITUTION!! This isn't up to him and his illegal

Court!!

[ReRe]

22. The question is

How soon can we expect to see the SC take this up? It should be a slam dunk for the Constitution.

[mgardener]

24. Trump made money from birth tourism allowing Russian women to stay at his hotels

I guess it's OK if Trump makes money from it..


https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/to-the-contrary/clip/ttc-extra-russian-birth-tourism-trump-properties-qj0wgl

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/birth-tourism-brings-russian-baby-boom-miami-n836121

[republianmushroom]

25. This will be interesting.

[Captain Zero]

32. Or a curse

Nt

[Bengus81]

46. The way I read it, it's not retroactive. It would take effect 30 days after it's changed

So people like Vance's wife or any others prior to the change wouldn't be effected,just children born after the change--if it's even changed.

[sinkingfeeling]

33. Don't think the SCOTUS was given the power to change the Constitution.

[Kablooie]

43. Who will overrule them if they do?

If they say black is white that becomes the law no matter what the text says.

[Bengus81]

47. Real test of the Constitution. The SC should simply tell Trump to take it to Congress where it would need 66 votes

[24601]

48. Almost right. The final clause of the 14th Amendment reads, "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by

appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

That means for Congress to define, "...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," enacting legislation would need to be passed by the House of Representatives (218 votes when there are 435 Representatives) and the Senate (60 votes to invoke cloture when there are 100 Senators). The final tally would be 279, broken down into 218 Representatives, 60 Senators, and one President.

Regardless of whether the legislation was wise or moronic, any SCOTUS - not just the nine that sit today, would - would likely uphold it unless it violated a different Constitutional provision.

[bunny planet]

34. He's freaking out...

Because he hasn’t been able to find enough ‘illegals’ to show his flying monkey cult that he’s making America white again with massive deportations so now he needs more people to be deemed illegal. He’s hoping the 6 Nazgûls on SCOTUS will help him accomplish this. He hasn’t kept any of his other promises to his rabid base, so he’s got to up his numbers on this, Constitution is once again, just toilet paper for his giant orange ass. This is the same reason he is now going after legal immigrants like the Columbia student protester he just disappeared, he can’t do any of this stuff by following the law, he’s going to take it to the same bought and paid for jerks in robes that made him above the law in the immunity ruling. I’m done with living in interesting times. This cretinous psychopath has to be stopped.

[Norrrm]

35. Will the SC accept this request? Can the 'six' refuse it to not embarrass Dotard?

[kimbutgar]

37. Isn't this in our constitution and needs to be overturned by a constitutional convention and not the unelected

Supreme Court?

[royable]

38. Desired breaking headline: Supreme Court hands Trump's ass back to him on a platter

with a rich brown sugar glaze.

[jmowreader]

41. Birthright citizenship isn't really what he wants to end

What he wants to end is the Constitution of the United States. Giving him what he wants on this issue is a license to get rid of anything else he doesn't like.

And right now, with all the people rising up against him and his buddy Elon, the thing he needs to get rid of most is the Sixth Amendment. He would LOVE to throw people in jail for no reason and hold them indefinitely without charges.

[Hekate]

44. I think we are about to find out just how corrupt & broken our SCOTUS is, when this lands in their hands

I think the 4 women form a bloc by now — but who will vote with them?