Politics

By John M. Grondelski, American Thinker - The Supreme Court’s June 27 Trump v. CASA et al. decision about birthright citizenship turned on a legal technicality: Could one federal district judge in one court in one state block a presidential policy for the entire country?  To that question, the Court said “no.”  On the merits of whether Trump’s effort to dial back what “birthright citizenship” means more broadly, the Court left that question for another day... There are two ways most countries confer citizenship: jus soli and jus sanguinis, “the law of soil” and “the law of blood.”

By Margot Cleveland, The Federalist - “‘[E]veryone, from the President on down, is bound by law.’ That goes for judges too,” the Supreme Court declared last week in holding several lower court judges erred in entering nationwide injunctions in the lawsuits challenging Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. The Supreme Court’s Friday decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc. represents the high court’s most recent check on what it branded an “imperial judiciary.”