Name: Will Trump back down from birthright citizenship fight?
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I'll just take this to Arthur because he's the attorney at the table.

For me, it's rarely, but sometimes they do.

I mean, on these constitutional issues, right?

And this is a judge who's been around a long time.

And I mean, it's just, yeah, it's kind of elementary.

I mean, it's just something that's clearly written in the constitution.

And, you know, I feel bad for the lawyer.

Like, you know, we're talking about blind loyalty to Trump.

Like, sometimes you have to say, Mr. President, like, I know you want this out there.

You want this idea out there, but we can't go into federal court and do it because I'm gonna be embarrassed.

You know, judges could sanction you in federal court for putting in a frivolous motion.

If he wanted to really do something, he could talk about a constitutional convention, which is very, very hard to do, to change the United States constitution into what he wants.

If Justice Scalia was with us, who was a textualist, what the text says is what it means, he would say, get out of my courtroom.

I think it's intentional of what they're doing.

And I think they know what they're doing.

I know it seems ludicrous on its face, but before the show tonight, I might or might not have been doing some Googling about movies, which we'll get to later.

But there was a scene in Jurassic Park with the raptors.

And I think that's what they're doing right now, is they know they can't get through, so they're testing their limits.

And if you read what Stephen Miller wrote in the New York Times in November of 2023, he outlined this strategy verbatim.

We're gonna talk about the 14th Amendment.

We're gonna deport a lot of US citizens and other folks who may just get in the way as we're trying to get rid of bad people, quote unquote, in their mind.

So I think this is very intentional for all of us going, oh, this could never happen in our country.

Well, to your point, they started the deportation raids and arrests this week.

And according to the mayor there, agents raided a local establishment in the city of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens without producing a warrant.

Let me jump in before you, let me finish that statement.

Because as I was coming in here tonight, I was having dinner with a reporter and they found out that one of these US citizens is an army veteran.

And the guy had to, they were offended that they had to produce some sort of legal document showing that he was a citizen.

And he was questioned about whether those documents were valid.

Could you imagine if Joe Biden issued an executive order saying, you know what?

I don't really like elements of the Second Amendment.

All these people, Arthur, that used to work with the Fox, those little pocket constitutions they would pull out every day.

Could you imagine the head exploding if Joe Biden did something to this?

And yet when it comes to the Constitution, nobody cares.

Not only is he testing the fences, but Abby, you remember, you reported on the polling before election day.

Immigration and migrants, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, was like the number one issue.

So this is what the American people voted for.

They wanted the TV president who was gonna be a tough guy, who was gonna throw people out of the country.

Okay, I'll give you the, they voted for the deportations.

No, I'm talking about the birthright citizenship of it all.

I think the goal all along was for this to go to the Supreme Court.

I mean, that is the goal all along is to let the Supreme Court make a decision or rendering on what exactly and how exactly this should play out.

If somebody is here illegally and gives birth, should that baby be an American citizen?

I don't think it's a question of fairness.

I think it's a question of what the Constitution says and what it doesn't say.

I would be surprised if this does go to the Supreme Court.

They would not grant cert on this because it says what it says.

The Supreme Court takes cases where there's a real controversy.

Here, I don't think you're gonna get four judges to say, well, this is a question we have to answer.

It's been over 150 years and there's been no controversy about it.

You know, I do think that it's definitely a fact that Americans voted on this.

They voted on the idea that it was somebody else's fault that their lives aren't going the way they would want them to go.

I do wonder, though, how much of this Americans will take.

There's going to be Americans inconvenienced.

And what kind of appetite the average American has for this?

I believe under President Obama's administration, they deported 8 million, 9 million?

But you're- It was more than Donald Trump.

I mean, there are plenty of Republicans who stand in awe of how many people that Obama was able to deport, because it was quite a lot.

So much so, they labeled him the deporter-in-chief.

And I'd also like to add to what Van is saying, is there's more repercussions to this.

And what's going to happen with this US citizen is they now can bring it to court and sue the US government for what's just happened.

There are reports that in Bakersfield, California, 75% of agricultural workers, farm workers, didn't show up to work yesterday because they're afraid of deportation.

What's that going to do to our food supply?

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