The Supreme Court May Pick the Worst Possible Case to Cede More Power to Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : That system sounds eerily similar to the pre-Civil War regime -- in which a person's liberty depended on which state they were in -- the precise condition the 14th Amendment sought to abolish.
46% : And not one justice even hinted that they think Trump should eventually win on the merits and get the green light to start stripping birthright citizenship from immigrants' children.
45% : The other men were less disparaging toward district courts but, to varying degrees, equally credulous toward Trump as a basically normal president who can be trusted to follow the law.
39% : States "don't know how this could work on the ground," Feigenbaum said, but it sounds like a recipe for "chaos."
36% : Maybe the justices thought they could issue a compromise decision that will give Trump a procedural victory by trimming the nationwide injunctions while teeing up a someday defeat for him on the merits in the near future.
33% : Kavanaugh returned frequently to his refrain that "all the presidents" act with "good intentions" when they push the boundaries of executive orders -- including Trump!
31% : In trying to resolve one perceived emergency, the majority may end up provoking many more. Thursday's arguments in Trump v. CASA were a muddle, exacerbated by the Trump Justice Department's pretzel of a request for emergency resolution of a side issue, and accepted on those narrow terms by the Supreme Court's own design.
29% : It seems the majority wants to have it both ways, reining in lower courts that are -- across all political and ideological lines -- battling Trump's lawlessness, and somehow doing so without itself blessing that lawlessness as the administration would like to deploy it against American children of non-citizens.
18% : But if Gorsuch and his colleagues hand Trump a win on the injunction issue, a huge number of children will be subject to the unlawful executive order before the Supreme Court can strike it down.

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