After he attended final week’s Supreme Court hearing and noticed that his anti-birthright citizenship order will likely be struck down, Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: “We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!”
The U.S. isn’t the only country with birthright citizenship. But the president’s emotional response mirrored his obvious understanding that he’ll possible lose the case when the justices rule later within the spring or early summer time. Indeed, Trump telegraphed his resignation to the possible defeat lengthy earlier than the oral argument, when he wrote on Truth Social in February that the court docket “will find a way to come to the wrong conclusion” on citizenship, prefer it did when he misplaced the tariffs case.
The president doesn’t appear any extra assured within the days after the listening to. In a social media put up that revealed at 12:57 a.m. ET on Monday, he wrote:
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Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog author. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the writer of “Bizarro,” a ebook concerning the secret battle on artificial medicine. Before he joined MS NOW, he was a authorized reporter for Bloomberg Law.
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