Dave Weigel

Dave set up the part about it not being possible without Congress.

Even with drawing down commitments after the war, I keep saying we need to sell it.

But that is something, as weak as Republicans can be in disagreeing with him, that is something that a critical mass of Republicans in the House and Senate would oppose.

If there's any kind of – let's say there's a vote on it, it wouldn't pass.

If there is an effort by the administration to draw down or support for NATO, that would be controversial.

You could start naming them Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton and Tom Tillis and enough Republicans to make it a real problem for them.

No, but of course, we're in a new world now, as Justice Alito pointed out, to where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who's a U.S.

citizen.

He said that about stature interpretation.

I think the same principle applies here, and I think we quote that.

I can skip to the end.

I expect the court to – no, really, I can expect the court to reject the Trump challenge almost entirely.

I've been trying to figure out with immigration attorneys just how you would even narrowly draw this so that there'd be some reform to birthright citizenship.

But I think – I expect the White House to do this.

I expect at the same time the court to –

drop out Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

And this is something that, not to be too cynical, but this is something that Chief Justice Roberts has done before, where the court is going to move in a pretty right-wing direction, and at the same time, it makes them not move as far as it could in a right, or let's say a MAGA direction,

and just balance at least the coverage balance the impression of the court balance the idea that the spring court is a fair institution uh and i'm not saying it is i'm just saying politically this has happened this happened around the aca this happened this has happened several times where there is a decision that goes against republicans that would have been a very heavy carry remember the multiple three attempts that went to the court to overturn the affordable care act while at the same time going much further than people might imagine let's say overturning roe uh overturning campaign finance laws etc and

That's what I expect.

You didn't hear, even from people more conservative than Roberts, you didn't hear a lot of enthusiasm for saying, actually, the framers of the 14th Amendment did not mean for this to include the children of immigrants.