Preliminary Injunction
“It has become ever more apparent that, to our president the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals, the rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain,” Coughenour said from the bench, to a packed courtroom. “In this courtroom and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon which I intend to follow.”
Coughenhour, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, read from prepared remarks, as he accused Trump of trying to change the Constitution “under the guise of an executive order.
“The Constitution is not something with which the government may pIay policy games. If the government wants to change the exceptional American grant of birthright citizenship, it needs to amend the Constitution itself,” he said. “Because the president’s order attempts to circumscribe this process, it is clearly unconstitutional.”
“We are all citizens subject to the rule of law, no amount of policy debate can change that,” Coughenour said.
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Some judge ruled something in a preliminary order
Great. This is our system. Lets get birthright citizenship in front of Congress to change or clarify the 14th amendment. The constitution is a living breathing document I heard
Once again forced to live up to your own bullshit
Trump can't change it unilaterally would be my guess. It not an EO it's an amendment. Its not hard to admit it when he over steps
The exceptional grant was for slaves freed from the democrats but that has yet to hold up. LIPO
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You afraid you can't ram it through your SCOTUS?
You've bought two of them. Three to go.
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Did you see anything about me being afraid to take it to the Supreme Court since I said it needs an amendment? Can you read?
Nice attack on our precious institutions like the Supreme Court
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Just think of where we’d be right now if hadn’t bought courts.
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Just say you support birth right citizenship. How hard is that? If you don't, then say you support a Constitutional amendment. How hard is that?
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I agree with the judge and it’s been my point on this Trump policy. Amend the Constitution to change the wording because the “intent” of why it was passed doesn’t matter to me.
In the meantime, seal the borders, deport everyone possible, and look for taxpayer money going to NGOs who sell US birth vacations from other countries. We’re the only global power that allows this bullshit birthing stuff.
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Because birthright citizenship is a loser for the Party and H knows it
No more manufactured consent. Its been shuttered
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Not sore what H’s point is here. I think this Trump policy is a loser, but it gets the national conversation started.
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The Supreme Court's authority relies on the public acceptance of it as an honest caller of balls and strikes.
Two of its current members test the public's credulity on that score. You know that. I know that. Everyone knows that.
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So its you who are afraid to take it to the Supreme Court. Thank you for clarifying
And you hate our institutions and democracy. Probably a fascist too
