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Deadline Legal Blog-After the rough birthright citizenship hearing, Trump makes a social media appeal
“The Country can only withstand so many bad decisions from a Court that just doesn’t seem to care,” the president wrote.
After the rough birthright citizenship hearing, Trump makes a social media appeal - MS NOW
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The U.S. isn’t the only country with birthright citizenship. But the president’s emotional reaction reflected his apparent understanding that he will likely lose the case when the justices rule later in the spring or early summer. Indeed, Trump telegraphed his resignation to the probable defeat long before the oral argument, when he wrote on Truth Social in February that the court “will find a way to come to the wrong conclusion” on citizenship, like it did when he lost the tariffs case.
The president doesn’t seem any more confident in the days after the hearing. In a social media post that published at 12:57 a.m. ET on Monday, he wrote:
Nothing is stopping Supreme Court justices from watching or studying Mark Levin’s Fox News show. But Trump’s social media complaint makes the same mistake that Solicitor General John Sauer did last week during oral argument, by harping on policy consequences rather than focusing solely on the legal issues. That the president continues to lump the citizenship appeal in with the tariffs case further shows that he, like other observers, expects this one to be another rare loss for his administration on a key issue.
The president doesn’t seem any more confident in the days after the hearing. In a social media post that published at 12:57 a.m. ET on Monday, he wrote:
It’s too bad that the Supreme Court can’t watch and study the Mark Levin Show tonight on the Birthright Citizenship Scam. If they saw it they would never allow that money making HOAX to continue. THEY SHOULD USE THEIR POWERS OF COMMON SENSE FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY. They failed miserably on Tariffs, needlessly costing the USA Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in potential rebates for the benefit haters and scammers. Why??? Don’t do it again! The Country can only withstand so many bad decisions from a Court that just doesn’t seem to care.
Nothing is stopping Supreme Court justices from watching or studying Mark Levin’s Fox News show. But Trump’s social media complaint makes the same mistake that Solicitor General John Sauer did last week during oral argument, by harping on policy consequences rather than focusing solely on the legal issues. That the president continues to lump the citizenship appeal in with the tariffs case further shows that he, like other observers, expects this one to be another rare loss for his administration on a key issue.