WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means of the relatively obscure “no one will stop me” loophole. “My critics say a constitutional amendment...
But is this satire? After reading about the judge that put an injunction on Trump's order for all federal agencies to disregard birthright citizenship, I wondered if he was going to go Andrew Jackson "now let him enforce it" on it and tell the agencies to disregard the injunction as well.
It is not. This is exactly what Trump has been doing all along. "Make them stop me," all the way to the Supreme Court. Which is stacked with loyalists, half of whom he put there himself.
You can tell it is the onion because he wouldn’t acknowledge that his orders are unconstitutional and the Supreme Court would clap like seals for all the unconstitutional shit. They are great at finding shit in the constitution that isn’t there like qualified immunity or presidential immunity.
Coughenour did not detail his reasoning during Thursday’s hearing, but his assertion that the order is “blatantly unconstitutional,” as well as point-blank questioning of DOJ attorney Brett Shumate — and his lack of questions for Washington’s assistant attorney general, Lane Polozola — suggested he agreed with the states’ arguments.
The states say it’s well-settled that the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship and that the president lacks authority to determine who should or should not be granted U.S. citizenship at birth.
“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is,” Coughenour told Shumate.