Trump Closer to Killing Birthright Citizenship – The Monday AM Quickie 6/30/25
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THE BIG NEWS
Corrupt Supreme Court Puts Trump Closer to His Dream of Deciding Who Can Be a US Citizen
Just before they went on vacation, the corrupt Supreme Court justices dropped another egregious opinion to consolidate Trump’s power and put him closer to his dream of killing birthright citizenship. The ruling relates to the executive order he issued on his first day of his second reign, “PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP,” which ripped up the Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantee of citizenship to all those born in the United States. After he issued that order, lower court judges in several states issued nationwide injunctions to stop the order from taking effect. But on Friday the judges rejected those injunctions with a 6-3 ruling, saying that federal judges can’t issue injunctions that go beyond their regional authority, according to The NYT and Politico. That means Trump’s order can be applied to states where a judge didn’t issue an injunction, which is more than half of them. So when the order takes effect in July, citizenship laws will differ between states.
Speaking on Meet the Press yesterday, Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said the ruling “will incentivize the president to act in a lawless manner. Because now only the Supreme Court, who can only take a handful of cases a year, can ever stop him from violating the laws and the Constitution.” Murphy added:
“Both the Constitution and the law is clear. If you’re born in the United States of America, you’re a US citizen. But now because there’s no longer going to be a federal policy, it’s going to be different in every state. A child born in the United States, born in Connecticut will be a citizen. But that same child if they were born in Oklahoma might not be. That’s chaos.”
It is already chaotic for the asylum seekers and other immigrants trying to figure out what the ruling means for them, Reuters reported. One woman, a 24-year-old Colombian asylum seeker in Houston, said she didn’t know what to do. She’s due to give birth in September and fears her baby could end up with no nationality. “I don’t know if I can give her mine,” she said. “I also don't know how it would work, if I can add her to my asylum case. I don't want her to be adrift with no nationality.”
MORE STORIES TO WATCH
Senators Voting on Deadly Spending Bill This Morning
By the time the AMQ is out, the Senate will have convened to start voting on Trump’s spending bill, the keystone to his domestic policy that will strip Medicaid from millions of people and plunder pristine wilderness in service of massive tax cuts to the wealthy. It will also add at least $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said yesterday. According to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll, Americans oppose the bill by an almost 2-to-1 margin. “It shows you the risks the Republican majority has because the bill is so unpopular, not only in North Carolina, but in the country,” said New York Senator and Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer. “This is bad news for their majority.” Ok, Chuck, sure, but what else you got? If this thing passes, people will die, what’s your plan? Anything?
Thugs Threaten to Kill Activists Protecting Ancient Forest
Unidentified thugs terrorized environmental activists and forced them to abandon their weeks-long protest in Washington state earlier this month, according to The Washington Post. The tree sitters had been staying on a platform about 80 feet up in a tree to prevent loggers from logging a ancient forest in the Olympic Peninsula – a longstanding strategy, especially in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, made famous by Julia Butterfly Hill in the ‘90s. But the recent protest ended after 40 days when a group of thugs rolled up and tried to tear down the platform with activists still on it. “One activist present said the driver of the Jeep screamed death threats at him, including vowing to gut him like an animal,” the Post reported. If you are thinking of taking direct action, (a) respect, and (b) please be careful. Trump is emboldening violent people who think they can get away with hurting others.
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- Failson Eric Floats Political Dynasty “I think the political path would be an easy one, meaning, I think I could do it. And by the way, I think other members of our family could do it too.” Vom. via the Financial Times.
SOME NUMBER
55 percent
That’s how much the United States contributes to the pollution emitted by private jets globally, thanks to coddled rich people like Taylor Swift, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccolo, and cursed online bookstore owner Jeff Bezos, according to a new study from the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation.
ON THE SHOW TODAY
6/30: Today’s guest is Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation and author of Allow Me to Retort, on to discuss the Supreme Court’s latest rulings.
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PARTING WORDS
“I am proud to be gay... and I am very scared that the government wants to bring us down. I am very surprised that there are so many people, I want to cry.”
- Zoltan, a 66-year-old who went to the 30th Pride march in Budapest with tens of thousands of others despite bigoted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s police ban and the threat of fines up to €500. Organizers face an even worse consequence: up to a year in prison. According to Le Monde, authorities may use facial-recognition technology on participants, “and newly installed cameras have appeared on lamp posts along the parade route.” Thirty-five thousand people were expected to show up. The final tally was 100,000, making it the largest Pride in Hungary’s history. Beautiful.
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