BREAKING: Trump’s birthright citizenship scheme implodes after lawyer’s JAW-DROPPING courtroom blunder about Native Americans.
Donald Trump sent his top lawyer to the Supreme Court to argue that birthright citizenship should be stripped from hundreds of thousands of American-born babies. It went so badly that his own solicitor general nearly argued Native Americans aren't citizens either — and had to be rescued by a Trump-appointed justice.
In one of the most jaw-dropping exchanges of Wednesday's already disastrous hearing, Justice Neil Gorsuch — appointed by Trump himself — pressed Solicitor General D. John Sauer on the logical consequences of the administration's own legal theory. The exchange was as stunning as it was revealing.
Gorsuch asked a simple question: under the administration's proposed test for birthright citizenship, are Native Americans born today automatically citizens?" S2 #4
This is comedy script the equal of broadcast farce I've seen.
Trump's confluence of adversities including age, dermatology apace, comical sentence structure, the U.S. economy / consumer $prices, and the unnecessary War Trump dragged U.S. into.
This confluence produces a synergy to which Trump grows progressively more vulnerable. Trump careens toward a brick wall. He'll never undo his 80th birthday.
Trump has already made his contempt for U.S. military service clear.
In this exceptional case it's not certain presidential succession will proceed as the Constitution instructs.
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION - ARTICLE # 25: Ratified February 10, 1967
SECTION 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
SECTION 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. *
When he purged the Pentagon Trump "retired" an extensive reservoir of our national defense capability [1] and political conscience. Many of them would preside more responsibly, and their schedule is open.
Speaker Johnson didn't want to be speaker, tried to avoid it, but wasn't allowed. And now that Johnson has tasted power, he's open-minded about more. That would reassure his political puppet-masters.
Or president MTG ? Not sure what they'll do with VP Vance.
Even if those that invoke
Art25 try to make it look as little like a palace coup d'état as they can, there will still be political diversity and power-contest among some battle-tested competitors.
They may even cite Jan.6 as justification for the Trump bump.
This is not a prediction. To the contrary, it's insight Trump may need to keep his 1600 Penn Ave address for a few more years. Is there a better way to inform him than posting this warning to him on his Internet? Isn't that how he's been communicating to me / U.S. ? Trump is a prolific twitter. It's 6 o'clock Don. Watch it.
[1] Many of them have been to war. As stalwart human beings they would like to spare their countrymen the ordeal of mortal combat, even if it means not slaughtering strangers. Many in the Pentagon were peace-lovers, perhaps seemingly a contradiction to the warrior profession. Perhaps not. I suspect Trumps address as commander in chief was intended to purify his coterie, as North Korea's Kim Jong Un, and Russia's Vlad Putin have.
* ARTICLE # 25: Ratified February 10, 1967
SECTION 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
SECTION 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
SECTION 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
SECTION 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting President.
Thereafter,when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. There upon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or,if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
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