Adam Serwer
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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There were some indications on oral arguments that they did not take that seriously.
argument very seriously you know john roberts said something you know the the the the attorney arguing in favor of uh you know trump's interpretation of the birthright citizenship clause
You said something about, like, times have changed.
And Roberts said something along the lines of... Well, it's a new world.
It's the same Constitution.
So that may be an indication that the court is at least not going to buy this one.
And I think ideologically...
You know, the conservative majority on the court favors a very narrow interpretation of the Civil War amendments, and that is convenient for the Trump administration, which wants to engage in overt racial discrimination, overt racial and religious discrimination, I would argue.
It is an ahistoric argument that exists largely because of the Trump administration's desire to nullify the birthright citizenship clause.
The birthright citizenship clause has never been interpreted this way.
Again, the...
The Plessy Court did not interpret it this way.
This is a longstanding principle of Anglo-American law.
You know, if they were, you know, during the debates of the 14th Amendment, they were literally talking about, you know, does this really mean anybody except for the very narrow exceptions?
And the jurisdiction thereof is, you know, when we're talking about
Native American nations are foreign diplomats or children of foreign diplomats, that's what that narrow exception applies to.
It would have made no sense to apply it to, quote-unquote, undocumented immigrants because that concept did not exist at the time in the same way it does now.
The concept of an illegal immigrant is a relatively recent one in American law, and it really starts in the 19th century with...
the Chinese Exclusion Act and these racist restrictions on immigration to the United States.
And that's not unconnected to the Trump administration because one of Trump's most prominent advisors and the architect of his immigration purge
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