debut: 12/22/15
8,338 runs
• Supreme Court ruling: The Supreme Court backed President Donald Trump’s effort to curtail lower court orders that have hampered his agenda for months in a case related to his birthright citizenship order.
• Trump touts “giant win”: At the White House, Trump called the court’s ruling a “victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers and the rule of law.”
• Trump’s stance: The president has claimed courts have overstepped their power by handing down “nationwide” orders that have temporarily blocked some of his policies, including his controversial plan to effectively end birthright citizenship.
• Birthright citizenship: The ruling leaves the future of birthright citizenship unclear, but signaled the president’s controversial plan to effectively end it may never be enforced.
• Jackson’s dissent: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in a dissent said the ruling creates “an existential threat to the rule of law” by allowing Trump to “violate the Constitution.”
Source: CNN
• Trump touts “giant win”: At the White House, Trump called the court’s ruling a “victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers and the rule of law.”
• Trump’s stance: The president has claimed courts have overstepped their power by handing down “nationwide” orders that have temporarily blocked some of his policies, including his controversial plan to effectively end birthright citizenship.
• Birthright citizenship: The ruling leaves the future of birthright citizenship unclear, but signaled the president’s controversial plan to effectively end it may never be enforced.
• Jackson’s dissent: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in a dissent said the ruling creates “an existential threat to the rule of law” by allowing Trump to “violate the Constitution.”
Source: CNN