Barbara M Straw

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

There’s literally a chair set up at SCOTUS for our presidents to sit in for oral argument. Your separation of powers nonsense is more imitation pearl-clutching hauteur.

NEWS: Judge Amit Mehta rules Trump is NOT immune for key Jan. 6 conduct—including his Ellipse rally speech, outreach to officials, and related actions—finding they can be treated as campaign activity, not presidential duties. That means civil lawsuits can move forward. The court also rejected Trump’s First Amendment defense and blocked a DOJ effort that could have shielded him from liability.

One of the most insane arguments is the idea that your parents status matters. “Subject to the jurisdiction thereof” applies to the person born. It does not say your parents must be subject to the jurisdiction. Even though they would be subject to it, if they were not, the child still could be. Which is the very reason that the US makes a tax obligation on everyone born in the US, on their lifetime worldwide income. So the US has, for decades, been arguing they do have birthright jurisdiction to people born in the US (including those born to illegal immigrants) by nature of levying a tax on income those people earn, even if they return to their parents home country.

NEW -- THUNE/JOHNSON STATEMENT. House will pass the Senate bill -- remember, the bill that JOHNSON and House Republicans dumped all over for a week. Then they want *3 years* of ICE/CBP funding in reconciliation.