Quasi-Citizen

@Tburdy @ABC It wasn't a new form of immigration, it was just a mechanism. Y'all are crazy. No one is saying that Trump has to keep the app, but those who did so during the Biden admin did so legally. They can't lose status just because the app was canceled.

@ABC Biden era pathway? Did Congress approve the pathway? If not, Trump can do whatever he wants with the pathway. Biden was not fit to make any decisions.

The Trump administration must restore the legal status of potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States legally through a Biden-era pathway, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. abcnews.link/iAn9X3o

@steveschale @JaredEMoskowitz (Someone said it would be great if he was the one who sent it to TMZ. Just free positive advertising.)

Just horrible seeing @JaredEMoskowitz being a normal Dad who supports his kid. This is clearly unacceptable in today’s politics…

@Ja_Rallen @davepl1968 There was a teacher on the plane. There was a whole school program rolled out by NASA. There’s a reason people remember this one and not the later Columbia one.

It was live broadcast in schools. I remember being in the gym with the rest of my school (very small school) watching it. It isn’t a replay I remember, I remember more than just the explosion. I remember who I was sitting with, the excitement before and the silence after, the looks on faces around me. You are wrong, we WERE watching.

99.9% of people who "experienced" the Challenger disaster saw it on replay and now remember it as live. Almost NO ONE was watching. Everyone thinks they were. It's a fascinating collective false memory.

@EggerDC @stanveuger Hon! Can you tell TMZ you have pictures of me making dinner for you and the kids? It’ll save me a $100k in ad buys.

A good plot twist would be that Moskowitz leaked this one himself

@codeb0z0 @GuntherEagleman (Sauer was making this up. So there’s that.)

@GuntherEagleman You'd think that such a renowned justice would at least have a clerk do a tiny amount of research to see what the drafters of the amendment might have thought "jurisdiction" meant. We're all doomed in this country.

Justice Kagan tried to pin Solicitor General Sauer into a corner during arguments over birthright citizenship, suggesting the challengers' position relied on some esoteric theory rather than the plain text. Sauer dismantled that by going straight to the source. The men who actually wrote the 14th Amendment and its predecessor Civil Rights Act defined "jurisdiction" as requiring complete allegiance to the United States, not foreign powers. Temporary visitors, diplomats, and those not domiciled with full loyalty were never intended to pass on automatic citizenship to their children born here. This wasn't some fringe idea cooked up later. It was the consistent understanding for decades, backed by congressional debates, treatises, and early cases. Modern claims of universal birthright citizenship for everyone physically present ignore what the framers actually said. Time to restore the real 14th Amendment.

@nickmmark He knows he can't make money off a library, and he can get people to fully fund a hotel.

He has no idea what a library is.

@STEWest Having to listen to a woman talk for 13 minutes without interrupting is 12 and a half longer than ever before in his life.

This is... amazing. The man stood up in the middle of the proceedings and walked out? He disrupted the proceedings of the Supreme Court? If that's not showing contempt for the whole structure of our system... What an ass. (From the NYTimes)

@Jakethecrazy19 @Legal_Fil Her point is the following: if a doctor tells a person that having a 14 BMI is healthy, can the state revoke a license. If a doctor says drinking mercury will help you regrow hair, can the state revoke a license. The majority says no. The state issue license cannot be revoked.

@Legal_Fil I’m not convinced she always does know the law People who reach the Supreme Court usually are the greatest legal minds in the country but Jackson has shown again and again that she lacks basic knowledge and intelligence

I’m trying to think of the last justice whose elicited so many “I can’t believe I have to explain this to you” reactions from his or her own side.

@PhilsRazor @ChrisDJackson No, there is a commission that oversees the White House grounds. For example, when Melania wanted to add a tennis pavilion, the plans were approved by it. A president can't just burn it down because he wants to. He doesn't own the house.

@ChrisDJackson "without permission"...? From whom? Each president is caretaker of the White House. He'd only need permission to spend tax dollars in excess of what was allocated for facility maintenance. Stop denying that Trump won & is now President.

A basketball court? Please. He put a goal on the tennis courts. That is not even remotely comparable to tearing down a main structure without permission and building a monstrosity that would dwarf the actual White House.

@LauraRbnsn For 200 years, courts interpreted the militia clause as relevant to the amendment. Scalia had to get his 5 votes that it was just silly words that meant nothing.

@LauraRbnsn Two things as well: (1) there were immigrants when the 14th was drafted. There were questions about Chinese immigration then. And Canada and Mexico went with BRC too. (2) There's the militia clause in the 2nd that had to be written out as meaningless by Scalia et al.

Look, I'm not even a hardliner on gun control, but why are we supposed to believe that the people who wrote the 14th amendment erred because they couldn't imagine a modern border but they could imagine an AK-47?

@AEKouri @ClayTravis There's actual history on this. And while tied to the reality of the end of slavery, there were actual debates that raised immigration. It's what they picked. Just like Canada and Mexico did.

@EditrixLane @ClayTravis If you read the historical documents from when the amendment was passed, it was not intended to be a free for all. The change was part of the reconstruction following the civil war. It was 100% intended to ensure former slaves & their children would be American citizens.

An American citizen’s baby can’t become a Chinese citizen by being born on the soil of China. Can anyone explain why a Chinese citizen’s baby should be able to become an American citizen by being born on the soil here? It’s absolute insanity.

@aethelamerican @SeanTrende If you are born in the US to a person who is able to be arrested in the US, that's all that the amendment requires. And saying it's wrong for liberals is silly. Liberals believe that text matters.

@SeanTrende except nothing but a completely tortured "originalist" reading supports birth tourism as it exists today, either

I still think it’s hilarious that with the birthright citizenship MAGA has become living constitutionalists (this is a problem they didn’t consider in 1868!) and lefties have become plain meaning/originalist types.

@AEKouri @ClayTravis It’s literally what they decided with the 14th. Now, you can change it, but that was the policy decision made then.

@ClayTravis Anyone arguing for birthright citizenship does it on an emotional basis. There is absolutely zero logic to make a case that someone here illegally or visiting should be given the privilege of US citizenship.

@DrNice2026 @unlogicl Getting a kiddo to eat when they dont want to: you give them their favorite color popsicles. Burn patient: strawberry milkshakes.

@unlogicl Yup.

Casey Means has never vomited for 3 days in a row, AND he’s never ever TREATED someone who has including a child. He has no idea the magic of a popsicle or a sip of Sprite. He’d love to require us to serve raw whole milk instead. Clueless. Pound sand, Casey.

@danzorn22 @jonathanchait @Acyn Called it. He’s going to get people to build it, and then his kiddos will each get a floor and then will have a hotel with zero debt. Just think, there can be special rooms where like Putin can read stolen docs.

@jonathanchait @Acyn Of course it is. What is fascinating about this is that there are people who will actually donate $ to build it.

Trump Presidential Library and Casino

@sa25817 @AttyStevenBrown The UK changed their law in like the 1980s, too.

@AttyStevenBrown It’s actually not true. Almost every western hemisphere nation has it. Conservatives who usually never wanna look to Europe, are looking to Europe on this issue.

It's funny listening to the Solicitor General discuss how the US is one a minority of countries that do birthright citizenship. Only a handful of countries have enshrined a right to bear arms; should we just go along with others as he suggests? What makes America great is we have formed our own way...

@bobbypolitics4 @thewreathwright @dilanesper So if a doctor says that having a 14 bmi is healthy, they can keep a state medical license?

@thewreathwright @dilanesper And the ban was limiting free speech

Quick thread on why I think the Supreme Court didn't think things through on the "conversion therapy" case yesterday (and maybe why I was surprised it was 8-1). There's a libertarian theory that all state regulation of quack medicine conveyed through words is unconstitutional.

@___scientist___ @RichardMonnick @KlasfeldReports And the UK changed their law in 1983.

@RichardMonnick @KlasfeldReports dude common law was invented in the UK, a part of Europe. Educate yourself.

Kav: “I get the point thinking about, ‘Gee, European countries don't have [birthright citizenship], or most other countries — many other countries in the world — don't have this.’” But he adds he’s “not seeing the relevance as a legal, constitutional interpretive matter.”

@JohnPlatner @Geiger_Capital @wolviebets Well they are subject to the jurisdiction! They can be arrested. The argument that they aren’t subject to the jurisdiction is specious.

@Geiger_Capital @wolviebets Subject to the jurisdiction thereof would mean that any illegal that has not made themselves known to federal authorities, is not agreeing to be subjected to our laws. I’m very concerned that this argument is not being made.

Justice Alito brings in a key point… You can’t establish a legal permanent domicile somewhere you are illegally present and subject to removal at any time.