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Will SCOTUS Let Trump End Birthright Citizenship?

Ian Millhiser of Vox Media joins us to discuss just how captured our Supreme Court may be

RICK: So, you write that book and - this is years ago - you saw this stuff coming.

IAN: And I mean, unfortunately it's gotten worse. You know, the Trump immunity case, the decision where the Supreme court said that Trump can use the powers of the presidency to commit a wide range of crimes and nothing can be done to him because of it surprised me.

I didn't think that the Supreme court was this deep in the tank for him. I didn't think that there was this court was this partisan. And now we know. And obviously if Trump wants to abuse the powers that the Supreme Court has given him, there's a tremendous amount that he can do. I’m waiting to see whether the court is even deeper in the tank for him than I thought.

I think the next big bellwether that I'm looking at is this birthright citizenship order where he's claimed that some people who are born in the United States are not citizens. The constitution could not be clearer that if you were born in the U. S. Unless you aren't subject to U. S. Law, and that's like the Children of diplomats, people of diplomatic immunity.

But except for those like extremely rare individuals, it's very clear. If you're born in the United States, you are a citizen. Doesn't matter what your immigration status is. Doesn't matter what your parents’ immigration status is. If you’re born here, you’re a citizen. And if the Supreme Court, turns its back on the clear language of the Constitution there, that would be very, very scary.

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