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(94,269 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 07:21 PM 11 hrs ago

The moment he pooped himself.

Diane N Sevenay (parody) @DianeSevenay
The moment he pooped himself.

(not a courtroom sketch)




Grio:

As Trump sat in the public gallery, marking the first time that a sitting U.S. president attended oral arguments before the Supreme Court, (Justice Jackson) and a majority of the justices poked holes in the government's legal arguments.

“How does this work? Are you suggesting that when a baby is born, people have to have documents, present documents? Is this happening in the delivery room? How are we determining when or whether a newborn child is a citizen of the United States?” queried Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s only Black female justice.

She added, “So are we bringing pregnant women in for depositions? What? What are we doing to figure this out?”

Jackson also challenged the government’s theory about which non-U.S. citizens are “domiciled” and thereby have an “allegiance” to the United States. The Harvard Law-educated justice noted that during World War II, Japanese babies in U.S. internment camps were given birthright citizenship.

“So it seems as though this concept of allegiance of the parents really wasn’t driving birthright citizenship, at least at this period of our history,” she said.

https://thegrio.com/2026/04/01/justice-jackson-poses-critical-question-about-pregnant-women-as-scotus-casts-doubt-on-trumps-birthright-citizenship/

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The moment he pooped himself. (Original Post) bigtree 11 hrs ago OP
Were freed slaves pro USA? Frasier Balzov 11 hrs ago #1

Frasier Balzov

(5,062 posts)
1. Were freed slaves pro USA?
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 07:43 PM
11 hrs ago

How much allegiance could they have felt toward a nation which had held them in bondage?

Yet sweeping them in as citizens was ostensibly the main purpose of the fourteenth amendment.

Or at least sweeping away any doubt about their citizenship as a consequence of the unfortunate Dred Scott decision.

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