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Federal judges' can't block EOs indefinitely. The WH can appeal to a circuit court, and so on up to the Supreme Court. But it does prevent the Admin from implem
by insane_dreamer 1y ago
Federal judges' can't block EOs indefinitely. The WH can appeal to a circuit court, and so on up to the Supreme Court. But it does prevent the Admin from implementing an unconstitutional EO while they wait to be challenged in all states/districts.
I'm not particularly happy about nationwide injunctions, but this is much worse if you have a president who is not shy to "break the law now and fight it in court later". And now that Trump has shown the way, you can be sure future presidents will follow.
Another terrible outcome is that you then have federal orders applied differently from state to state (or more accurately, federal district to district). If you're in Nevada you won't get citizenship, but in Oregon you will.
This is right up there with the Presidential Immunity in terms of terrible decisions by this SCOTUS.
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- peddling-brink 1y agoThis is up there with Citizens United. This road is dark.
- Tadpole9181 1y ago> If you're in Nevada you won't get citizenship, but in Oregon you will. They're 100% coming for Obergfell and it's clear now how. They'll arrest a legal US citizen who has naturalized citizenship from illegal parents, born in a state that received an injunction but residing in a state that has not. The representative of that person will say that they by being a citizen in the other state, they must be respected as a citizen in the other. They will cite Obergfell. The SCOTUS will revoke their ruling on Obergfell and say, no, you are not a citizen just because there's an injunction in that other state. The astute reader may notice that this is literally a replay of Dread Scott.
- IAmGraydon 1y agoSorry just to clarify - you think they are going to cite and overturn a case about the legalization of same-sex marriage in their witch hunt of illegal immigrants?
- insane_dreamer 1y agoI think the connection that's being made is that if they can declare that your citizenship-by-birth, legal in Oregon, is not legal in Nebraska (making you effectively stateless there), that they can say the same thing for your same-sex marriage certificate issued in Oregon, is not recognized in Nebraska.