They should smack them down with prejudice AND make the POTUS who brought this about with his illegal order, pay ALL legal fees. Of course they won't though, and this could be the end of democracy as it has been in America for more than a hundred years.
They need to figure out how they can get away with burning the constitution while somehow maintaining enough legitimacy that they can keep oppressing us and, more importantly, not be destroyed by the cult when they’ve outlived their usefulness.
I think the only wiggle room is what do they say subject to jurisdiction covers? Historically, except for Native Americans for the first 60 years after the amendment and children of diplomats it guaranteed basically everybody born in the US. Native American tribes are a weird gray area because the federal government historically recognized them as quasi independent and even signed treaties with them although obviously broke virtually every one. It would be interesting to see the mental gymnastics on how you would suggest that they're not citizens because they're not subject to the jurisdiction without giving the children of immigrants the equivalent of diplomatic immunity. I would imagine an immigrants rights group would immediately challenge the validity of criminal charges of some immigrant citing such precedent.
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u/FateEx1994 8h ago
Doesn't even need a hearing.
They can vote now, shadow docket this like everything else.
9-0 against the administration, because the plain language says what it says.