Garrison Davis
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There was nothing about that in the order.
I legitimately do not think the people who are pushing this understand that that's a thing.
Yeah, they don't think about it.
Yeah, it's not a group of people that they care about, right?
Earlier today, during the Supreme Court oral arguments on birthright citizenship, which Trump attended for 90 minutes and then left because he wasn't happy with the way it was going, Gorsuch asked the seasoned Solicitor General if he thinks Native Americans are birthright citizens under their test, to which the Solicitor General replied, I think so, and then said, I'll have to think that through.
Oh, my fucking God.
He later indicated that they probably would.
But this just shows that they aren't really like thinking about all these sorts of things.
It's not necessarily like in that case, trying to be intentionally harmful.
It shows just they're not even like thinking about these sorts of things that could have really, really devastating effects if implemented.
Which is like an odd part of the Trump administration has like not everything bad they're doing is necessarily has every single specific implementation pathway in mind.
But when implemented is like still is still devastating to people's lives.
I want to say one thing about the birthright citizenship thing.
Josh Chaffetz, who's a professor of law at Georgetown Law and Politics, had a very good point about this, which I think is worth making, which is like part of what's going on here is that
the Trump administration is trying to carve out like a specific thing called birthright citizenship.