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undergrounddemsunite

(14 posts)
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:25 PM Monday

SCOTUS Now Expedites an Appeal on Trump's Birthright Order

Source: https://franknezmedia.com/scotus-now-expedites-an-appeal-on-trumps-birthright-order/

The Supreme Court will fast-track an appeal of Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, signaling imminent substantive review despite lower courts’ nationwide injunctions. This ruling could reshape 14th Amendment interpretation, affecting millions' citizenship status, immigration policy, and separation-of-powers precedents. "The court’s brief order, issued without any accompanying explanation, signals that the justices are preparing to dive deep into the merits of the case."

It's getting more real...

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SCOTUS Now Expedites an Appeal on Trump's Birthright Order (Original Post) undergrounddemsunite Monday OP
Brought to us by the Republican Party BOSSHOG Monday #1
seems straightforward to me lapfog_1 Monday #2
SCOTUS overturning this could put me and my brother in danger sdfernando Monday #3
Incredibly ironic, isn't it?? That the nation which attacked us by surprise in 1941, and was Jack Valentino Monday #5
Stripping millions people of their citizenship is a declaration of war LS0999 Monday #4

lapfog_1

(31,530 posts)
2. seems straightforward to me
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:32 PM
Monday

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

sdfernando

(5,986 posts)
3. SCOTUS overturning this could put me and my brother in danger
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:52 PM
Monday

of having your citizenship questioned. I'm trying to get out of this hellhole as fast as I can. My brother's wife is Japanese and her parents are there. I've been encouraging him to move there and take his 2 kids with him.

Jack Valentino

(4,173 posts)
5. Incredibly ironic, isn't it?? That the nation which attacked us by surprise in 1941, and was
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:30 PM
Monday

allied with Adolf Hitler, is now more reliably democratic
than WE are ?



LS0999

(275 posts)
4. Stripping millions people of their citizenship is a declaration of war
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:55 PM
Monday

If this is what America is going to be then it doesn't deserve to exist in its current form and it needs to be dissolved and reformed.. States need to take action to protect their citizens..

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