Hundreds rallied outside the Supreme Court this week, where the Trump administration demanded that justices nullify the kinds of the lower court orders that have blocked its unconstitutional and outrageous effort to terminate birthright citizenship – a protection explicitly guaranteed in the 14th Amendment – via executive order. Outside...
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A long-serving federal judge in Seattle, Washington has issued a nationwide ruling temporarily blocking Donald Trump’s attack on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, calling the executive order seeking to gut 150 years of settled law “blatantly unconstitutional,” The Seattle Times reports. In his ruling, Senior U.S. District Judge...
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For regular readers, the events of this week likely did not come as a surprise. Trump and, more importantly, the gang of nativist ideologues he empowered around him, have begun executing their radical reimaging of America viewed through the prism of the white nationalist great replacement theory. Just as...
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Donald Trump’s day one avalanche of promised executive orders were more about advancing disorder, nativist divisions, and scapegoating immigrants than about lowering the costs of groceries, childcare, and housing for working families. As noted in a Bluesky thread earlier this week: The sum total of the coming day-one Executive...
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