Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether Trump can implement birthright citizenship ban
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Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether Trump can implement birthright citizenship ban
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/supreme-court-to-hear-arguments-on-whether-trump-can-implement-birthright-citizenship-ban-237822533695
When a president defies #scotus it’s not just about one issue. It’s not just about immigration. It’s about power. It’s about the death of democracy — one defiance at a time.
We have co-equal branches of government for a reason. If we let one man ignore the rule of law, what’s next? Our voting rights? Our freedoms?
This is bigger than politics. It’s about the foundation of our country. Don’t sit quietly and watch it crumble. Use your voice. Flood your representatives. Demand they stand up for US.
Here’s how you can take action NOW:
Find your House Rep
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Find your Senator
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Call and email them — daily
Tell them: Uphold the Constitution. No one is above the law.
Your silence is compliance. Do not comply.
Breaking News! (via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com )
Feds Charge Ahead with Plan to Destroy #OakFlat
#SupremeCourt poised to consider #ApacheStronghold’s appeal
By Becket Law, Censored News, April 17, 2025
WASHINGTON – "The U.S. government today announced that it is forging ahead with plans to transfer a #NativeAmerican #SacredSite to a multinational mining giant in as few as 60 days, despite a
federal lawsuit challenging the action as illegal.
"In Apache Stronghold v. United States, Apache Stronghold—a coalition of #Apaches, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies—sued to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to
Resolution Copper, a Chinese-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever.
"The government has announced it will now forge ahead with the transfer even though the case is currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Since time immemorial, #WesternApaches and other Native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat, outside of present-day #SuperiorAZ, for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is listed in the #NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces and has been protected from #mining and other harmful practices for decades.
These protections were targeted in December 2014 when a last-minute provision was slipped into a must-pass defense bill [#NDAA] authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to the Resolution Copper company.
"#ResolutionCopper now plans to turn the sacred site into a two-mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater.
"The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old Indigenous rock shelters at one of Australia’s most significant cultural sites.
" 'The feds are barreling ahead to give Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, even as the Supreme Court considers whether to hear the case,' said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. 'This makes the stakes crystal clear: if the Court doesn’t act now, Oak Flat could be transferred and destroyed before justice can be served.' "
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/feds-charge-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy.html
#SaveOakFlat #ChichilBiłdagoteel #CorporateColonialism #ProtectOakFlat #ReaderSupportedNews #SCOTUS #DefendTheSacred #CopperMine
#WaterIsLife #ResolutionCopper #RioTinto #RecycleCopper #CulturalGenocide #NoMiningWithoutConsent #RecycleCopper #TontoNationalForest
#SCOTUS will hear arguments on an expedited basis by the Trump administration challenging lower courts' injunctions against his attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship. Arguments will be heard on the legitimacy of the injunctions, and not the issue of birthright citizenship, unless the SCOTUS crosses a line. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-hear-arguments-injunctions-trump-bid-end/story?id=120916742
Hate is the name of Trump's game.
SCOTUS should be ashamed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-jd-vance-trade-deal-free-speech-b2733806.html
#LGBTQ #Trump #SCOTUS #HateSpeech
Federal district court judges in 3 different states have forcefully rejected that view & blocked #Trump's executive order voiding #BirthrightCitizenship. And 3 separate appeals courts have refused to unblock those court orders. Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee in Washington state, was the first judge to block Trump's EO, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional."
The #14thAmendment of the #UnitedStates #Constitution says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." #Trump, however, has long argued that there is no such thing as automatic #citizenship, at least not for *all* children born in the #US.
The court gave no indication that it plans to consider another related question raised by the #Trump admin, which complained to the court about the ability of single district court judges issuing rulings that cover the entire country.
To date, EVERY COURT that’s considered the EO banning #BirthrightCitizenship, has blocked it. But he has persisted in his contention that birthright #citizenship is unconstitutional, an idea widely considered fringe. #SCOTUS ruled to the contrary 127 yrs ago.
#SCOTUS will weigh in on #Trump plans to restrict birthright citizenship https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/17/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship/82865180007/
This should have been rejected
#SCOTUS to hear challenge to #Trump's #BirthrightCitizenship order in May
The #US #SupremeCourt Thurs deferred any ruling on Trump's claim that there is no automatic guarantee to birthright #citizenship in the #Constitution.
The court said it would hear arguments in the case on May 15, with a decision likely by late June or early July.
#law #immigration #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #ChristianNationalism
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/g-s1-58221/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship
Just in: The US Supreme court has set a hearing about the cases involving Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship for 15th May. #scotus
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/g-s1-58221/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship
Oy.
“ #SCOTUS on Thursday said it will review #Trump ’s attempt to ban automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors, scheduling a special court session for next month” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/17/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-ban/
…#Trump does not have the authority to fire #JeromePowell, except for "cause," meaning some kind of bad behavior. #SCOTUS precedent supports that view. But the White House has signaled a willingness to test that standard, firing board members of other #independent #FederalAgencies.
Powell said on Wednesday that lawmakers from both parties have generally defended the #Fed's ability to set interest rate policy without interference.
In the 1990s, #timber companies that wanted to harvest those old-growth #forests challenged the govt's broad interpretation of #harm. #SCOTUS ultimately upheld that interpretation in a 6-3 decision.
Justice Antonin Scalia dissented w/that interpretation. He argued that in the context of wild #animals, "take" should be interpreted more literally, as an affirmative act directed against a particular animal, not an act that indirectly causes injury to a population.
In today's bonus "One First," I look at the power that federal district judges currently have to appoint private special prosecutors to try criminal contempt of court, and why #SCOTUS likely wouldn't—and, in my (perhaps surprising) view, *shouldn't*—uphold it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-143-...
Bonus 143: Private Special Pro...
Turns out I'm still a writer. New today on NIDC:
Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship
"Step by step the Christian Nationalist Trump regime has followed a playbook that transforms fascist propaganda into administrative reality, while purposely fracturing the rule of law to liberate itself from judicial oversight. If the United States was a Middle Eastern oil-producing nation full of Muslims, our government would be openly advocating for an invasion to “liberate” the American people and stop “tyranny.” Of course, maybe none of that matters anyway because unless someone stops him, there will be no law in this country except Trump’s word, and no America to save, except what Trump wills America to be."
Rechter dreigt om regering-Trump te vervolgen voor deportaties El Salvador
https://nos.nl/artikel/2563879-rechter-dreigt-om-regering-trump-te-vervolgen-voor-deportaties-el-salvador #Boasberg #Trump #ElSalvador #kidnapping #fascism #ICE #AbregoGarcia #SCOTUS