Trump Loses on Birthright Citizenship as America’s 250th Celebrations Flop
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Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
49 min
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Welcome to Raging Moderates.
I'm Scott Galloway.
And I'm Jessica Tarliff.
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Look, we have a mailbag episode coming in hot and want to hear your toughest questions. Just send us a short voice memo with your questions to RagingModerates at PropGME.com. Again, that's RagingModerates at PropGME.com. Jess, let's light this candle. The Supreme Court wrapped up. There are final cases of the term today, so let's dig into the results. The big one, or the one that's getting the most attention, is birthright citizenship, which is arguably probably the most important. Trump, on day one of his term, put out an executive order to end birthright citizenship for babies born to parents who are in the U.S. illegally or on a temporary basis. He himself predicted he'd lose this one. The judges struck down Trump's executive order.
Jess, what are your thoughts here?
I mean, this was predicted, I guess, because they tempered the fact that they knew that it wasn't going to go their way. It makes it less embarrassing, but you kind of think, like, why... Didn't you find some way to kind of like pull it back after the oral arguments, which we were all, you know, listening to and thinking like, oh, this isn't going so well. I'll be curious to see what they do with it going forward. I saw Mike Johnson making a comment saying, you know, like, yes, this is the textualist interpretation, which I thought is what conservatives wanted. Right. The textualist interpretation.
Right.
He's like, but I'm disappointed in the ruling and essentially the Constitution doesn't match with the facts on the ground. And that's an argument that people would make about all sorts of issues. Like I would say that the, you know, that the framers didn't know what we would be doing with guns in this country at this point, right? And we've seen rulings like in D.C., for instance, that have shown some malleability or ability to update your priors as to the ability, you know, the right to bear arms. But this thesis that the right is putting out there, that there are tons of people streaming across the border, they're only here for half an hour, they drop a baby here, and suddenly, voila, you have an American citizen and by extension, you know, an American family.
People are here. It does happen, I guess, in some cases, not in just half an hour. But obviously, you know, people know that we have this policy. And it is a draw, I'm sure, for some. But it doesn't change the Constitution, it doesn't change the facts on the ground, or the facts, more importantly, that immigrants are such an incredible boon to the country, right, economically and culturally in a ton of ways. So I think it's, you know, good, not surprising who was against it, Thomas Alito and Gorsuch. And... Yeah, I think it's a good one. One, I mean, we're going to go through all of them. One, I think, is an absolute fucking disaster on campaign finance, and the transgender sports one I really want to talk to you about.
So what do you think about birthright citizenship?
Well, so the number is a quarter of a million or 250,000. Baby's year, roughly 7% of all U.S. births would have lost automatic citizenship under this executive order.
And what I'd love to see is what is— What are the outcomes? I mean, what is the data? Are these quarter of a million babies more likely to commit crimes? You know, what is the evidence around the data around justifying this at all?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–5:12
2
What did the Supreme Court decide about Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship?
5:12–17:33
3
How would ending birthright citizenship affect the 250,000 babies born each year?
17:33–38:19
4
What were the Court's rulings on campaign finance and who benefits from them?
38:19–39:36
5
How will the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision change political spending and influence?
39:36–49:08
Speakers
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