D. John Sauer
Appearances
Apple News Today
The winners and losers of the GOP tax bill
I don't think they do anything different. What the executive order says in section two is that federal officials do not accept documents that have the wrong designation of citizenship from people who are subject to the executive order. How are they going to know that? The states can continue to, the federal officials will have to figure that out. How?
Apple News Today
The winners and losers of the GOP tax bill
So you can imagine a number of ways that the federal officials could. Such as? Such as they could require a showing of, you know, documentation showing legal presence in the country. For a temporary visitor, for example, they could see whether they're on a B-1 visa, which would exclude kind of the birthright citizenship in that context.
Apple News Today
The winners and losers of the GOP tax bill
Respectfully, I think what we have are lower courts making snap judgments on the merits that ignore the fundamental principle of the 14th Amendment, that it was about giving citizenship to the children of slaves, not to the children of illegal immigrants.
The Daily
Birthright Citizenship Reaches The Supreme Court
Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court.
The Daily
Birthright Citizenship Reaches The Supreme Court
Universal injunctions exceed the judicial power granted in Article III, which exists only to address the injury to the complaining party. They transgress the traditional bounds of equitable authority, and they create a host of practical problems.
The Daily
Birthright Citizenship Reaches The Supreme Court
They create what Justice Powell described as repeated and essentially head-on confrontations between the life-tenured and representative branches of government. And they disrupt the Constitution's careful balancing of the separation of powers.
The Daily
Birthright Citizenship Reaches The Supreme Court
In appropriate cases, courts have certified class actions on an emergency basis. We found at least four cases in recent years where that was done.
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Birthright Citizenship Reaches The Supreme Court
Generally, our practice is to respect circuit precedent within the circuit, but there are...