Yeah, it’s just a ludicrous situation. Just say Native Americans are obviously citizens, how hard is that? It’s not like there are zillions of them, most Americans don’t know a single Native American person. Are they so Hell-fired up to get rid of anyone who isn’t lily white that they can’t make an exception for these people, who are the only real, actual citizens?
No, the answer is no. They have colorful skin, so they have to go.
Honestly though, if the Supreme Court were doing their job even slightly properly, the response from the justices to that facile punt of an answer to a very obvious question should have been to utterly excoriate the lawyer - up to, and hopefully including, dismissal with prejudice. The response that fucker gave shows a very obvious lack of preparedness and consideration - or more likely, very thinly veiled contempt of the court.
Gorsuch asked if Native Americans would be considered birthright citizens, and the MAGA lawyer said he’d “have to give it some thought.”
Shouldn’t he have done that BEFORE appearing in front of SCOTUS?
He’d have to give it some thought??? Jesus fucking Christ
“Yeah, let me just go home and fire up the Google-Fu, and get back to you, say… how’s next Wednesday? That work for you?”
I think you’re giving them too much credit. It’s more like, “I can’t ask Grok while everyone’s looking!”
Yep. And the phrase NATIVE Americans is a fucking clue
Yeah, it’s just a ludicrous situation. Just say Native Americans are obviously citizens, how hard is that? It’s not like there are zillions of them, most Americans don’t know a single Native American person. Are they so Hell-fired up to get rid of anyone who isn’t lily white that they can’t make an exception for these people, who are the only real, actual citizens?
No, the answer is no. They have colorful skin, so they have to go.
Honestly though, if the Supreme Court were doing their job even slightly properly, the response from the justices to that facile punt of an answer to a very obvious question should have been to utterly excoriate the lawyer - up to, and hopefully including, dismissal with prejudice. The response that fucker gave shows a very obvious lack of preparedness and consideration - or more likely, very thinly veiled contempt of the court.
I would suggest that the minds of Trump’s cronies are rarely troubled by concepts such as “thought”.
If I look at the results of these people “thinking”, I doubt it would have made much of a difference.
One thing Gorsuch is good on is Native rights