Trump’s DOJ knows it can’t win the birthright citizenship cases on the merits, so it’s trying to use a procedural issue (that #SCOTUS has repeatedly dodged) to put the policy into effect across much of the country. Today’s “One First” looks at the cynical ploy: www.stevevladeck.com/p/133-birthr...
133. Birthright Citizenship (S...
133. Birthright Citizenship (Sort of) Reaches the Court
The Trump administration's emergency applications in three birthright citizenship cases are a cynical effort to mitigate the effects of an inevitable loss on the merits. The justices shouldn't bite.Steve Vladeck (One First)
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in reply to Steve Vladeck • • •for the most part I don't think most of the people involved at the DOJ have much of a plan at all. The boss told them to do it, so they're doing it. That says deep as the thinking goes.
BUT to the extent that there is some sort of strategy, I think a couple of the officials involved might be trying to make a side point by challenging the procedural issues in a way that will be applied positively to other cases that are more serious.
The boss told him to do this, so a few of them are trying to make the best out of it. Most of them are probably just punching the clock though.