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- Justice Jackson tells the government: “Your argument seems to turn the justice system into a 'catch me if you can' regime from the standpoint of the executive.”
- Tomorrow, SCOTUS will hear arguments over whether to let Trump deny birthright citizenship to some infants. If they allow it, it will return us to a time, long since abolished, in which the equality of thousands of American-born children hinges on their ancestry. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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View full threadFrom Florida's Stop WOKE Act, which teaches kids not to feel bad about what their ancestors did, to SCOTUS ending affirmative action b/c we can't treat people differently based on their ancestry... the GOP has gone all in on the idea of a reset button for each generation...
- Trump's anti-birthright citizenship crusade goes against the idea of judging the individual and instead creates a system in which babies inherit the sins and status of their parents. “It’s definitely inconsistent with a long standing conservative principle that we’re all individuals."
- Birthright Citizenship is our “constitutional reset button” because “it’s what ensures that each generation starts fresh, and we don’t worry about status because of what’s in our past.” Republicans have latched onto the idea of a clean break from the past in attacking civil rights laws
- The Trump administration is now detaining children indefinitely. "We don’t know when, if ever, they will be able to reunite with their family.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202... From @julialurie.bsky.social
- Sungida Rashid died after giving birth at a hospital run by the for-profit chain Steward Health Care. She was not alone: We pulled hundreds of cases filed against Steward and found 12 more instances of moms and newborns who died, and 21 with severe injuries bit.ly/455xC7O
- I wrote about Jeanine Pirro in 2018. The last time she was a prosecutor, decades ago, she had a pattern of “press conferences where she would engage in unethical conduct by making all sorts of outlandish, inflammatory statements.” Now it's all the Trump show www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
