Domenico Montanaro

You know, Justice Kavanaugh sort of talked about public opinion in some respects as not really legally relevant.

Right.

He said that, you know, whether other countries have it or not, which is one of the arguments that the Trump administration makes that D. John Sauer, the solicitor general, had brought up.

He said, I'm not seeing the relevance as a legal interpretive matter.

And Sauer, for his credit to his credit, agreed with that.

It's not relevant, but it's relevant to what happens outside and what you're seeing outside of the court.

are big crowds, people who have strong feelings and passions about this that are also relevant to, one, President Trump, but also, two, what it means to be American and what the redefinition is of what this country is going to stand for as far as who belongs here.

And because at the time that this 14th Amendment was passed, as some of the justices and the

And Cecilia Wong from the ACLU had noted, you know, this was a time when they were the United States was still growing and needed more people and needed to, you know, kind of go out into the other parts of the country and build up.

That's a different is a different United States now than it was then.

The question is, can you change that through the Supreme Court or do you change that through Congress?

I thought this idea of legally domiciled was really at the key of this entire argument.

And if you were to keyword how many times the word domicile got used, there would be many, right?

And I think that this is an interesting point because –

What does it mean to be legally domiciled, right?

Like what does it mean – it's not necessarily citizenship or bloodline, right?

So does it mean somebody who's been in the country for decades, et cetera?

Well, I think that's notable that he was there from a legacy standpoint and from what he values, right?

Because he said that he talked about potentially maybe wanting to go to the tariffs case at the Supreme Court.

He ultimately decided against doing that.