Dave Weigel
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 1 Apr
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And that would be the test you'd have us apply today, right?
So if a tribal Indian, for example, gives up allegiance to... Born today, birthright citizens.
I'll take the yes, that's all right.
No, that's also, if you know Gorsuch, that is one of his pet issues.
He's from Colorado.
He's from part of the country where he's been a tribal sovereignty supporter, just generally tribal rights, period, his whole career.
So that was also one of the moments where people said that Sauer's not doing a very good job of this.
He should have had an answer in the pocket for Gorsuch.
But
Barrett was very concerned with the practicality of what would change in the law, what would change people's lives if the administration was successful.
There would be people in limbo who think they're citizens and would be stateless.
And that's actually not that this administration cares a ton about international law.
it frowns on that, of making people not just deporting to another country, making stateless because you're deciding they weren't born here at all.
There are a lot of people caught in the corners of this.
Right now, if you're born in American Samoa, then you move to Hawaii and you try to vote for a candidate, you can't.
There's just a lot of messiness in immigration law, but there always has been.
And this is what the history they were talking about, the originalists, which in this case include a lot of liberals,
had a lot to point to.
Yes, there weren't planes that could take you from Beijing to Los Angeles in the 19th century, but people just crossed the border all the time because we didn't have the same concept of citizenship.
What changed is welfare benefits, basically.
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