In a case related to the Birthright Citizenship question the SCOTUS has ruled that federal courts do not have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions.
The question was triggered by Trump's Executive Orders excluding children born to illegal immigrants and temporary visitors from birthright citizenship.
But this has vexed several presidents both Democrat and Republican because it leads to "judge shopping." This is the art of getting your case heard by a federal judge sympathetic to your position and then getting that decision imposed on the whole country.
This is essentially what happened with the abortion drug mifepristone a few years back before the SCOTUS overruled the restriction.
So what exactly does this mean for Birthright Citizenship? Probably not a whole lot. The order won't go into effect for 30 days and that's plenty of time to file additional lawsuits, including a class action suit, against the EOs.
The SCOTUS really needs to get off its rear end and rule on whether "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" excludes illegal immigrants and temporary visitors from Birthright Citizenship.
Personally I don't think it should exclude illegals because they're here pretty much on a permanent basis but I don't think it should apply to temporary visitors.
Of course what I think doesn't matter. What matters is what the court thinks and I expect it to exclude both when it gets around to deciding.
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