“I can imagine it being messy on some applications,” Barrett told Sauer, regarding Trump’s Day 1 executive order.
The Supreme Court heard arguments on President Donald Trump's executive order redefining birthright citizenship, with observers noting Justice Samuel Alito's apparent support for the government's position. While Chief Justice John Roberts called Solicitor General D. John Sauer's approach "quirky," Alito posed questions that aided the government's…
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday questioned Solicitor General D. John Sauer on what she dubbed the potentially “messy” applications of President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. “I can imagine it being messy on some applications,” Barrett told Sauer, regarding Trump’s Day 1 executive order limiting birthright…
The Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with how to treat President Trump's attempt to block children of illegal immigrants and short-term visitors from getting birthright U.S. citizenship, with the justices trying to stack his executive order up against more than a century of tradition.
The president sat in on oral arguments around his birthright citizenship executive order
