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MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend unloaded on the Supreme Court docket’s ruling on President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship government order, calling it “insane” throughout a dialogue on Friday.
“I simply don’t, I can’t imagine that we’re asking the query, ‘is the 14th Modification to the Structure constitutional?’ That’s what, it’s loopy. And I’m sorry, however folks have to name, ‘that is loopy.’ They’re asking us… They’re asking us to not imagine our personal eyes and our personal ears. They’re asking us to go towards the whole lot that we all know to be true. That is insane,” Sanders Townsend mentioned.
The Supreme Court docket delivered a significant victory in Trump’s effort to dam decrease courts from issuing common injunctions that had upended a lot of his administration’s government orders and actions on Friday. The Justices dominated 6-3 to permit the decrease courts to problem injunctions solely in restricted cases, although the ruling leaves open the query of how the ruling will apply to the birthright citizenship order on the coronary heart of the case.
Symone Sanders Townsend, Co-Host MSNBC’s The Weeknight, Former Chief Spokesperson for Vice President Harris seems on “Meet the Press” in Washington D.C. on Sunday, Could 4, 2025. (Photograph by: Shannon Finney/NBC by way of Getty Pictures)
UPENDING US BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP WOULD HAVE DRASTIC NEGATIVE IMPACT, DEFENDERS WARN
The Supreme Court docket agreed this yr to take up a trio of consolidated circumstances involving so-called common injunctions handed down by federal district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington state.
Judges in these districts had blocked Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship from taking pressure nationwide — which the Trump administration argued of their attraction to the Supreme Court docket was overly broad.
“The purposes don’t elevate – and thus we don’t deal with – the query whether or not the Govt Order violates the Citizenship Clause or Nationality Act,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett mentioned, writing for almost all. “The problem earlier than us is one in all treatment: whether or not, beneath the Judiciary Act of 1789, federal courts have equitable authority to problem common injunctions.”
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend unloaded on the Supreme Court docket’s ruling on Trump’s birthright citizenship government order. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
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MSNBC host Michael Steele responded, “that is the panorama we discover ourselves on now.”
“I imply, the truth is that they’ve been very efficient. Trump and his minions inside the federal government have been very efficient at setting the stairsteps to the assorted narratives that they wish to get completed,” he mentioned.
President Donald Trump President Donald Trump arrives on the South Garden of the White Home from Camp David on Monday, June 9, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc)
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Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern additionally criticized the ruling, and insisted that nobody may clarify how Trump’s order would work in follow.
“When a toddler is born in America, the physician doesn’t demand the papers of their dad and mom to make sure that they’re a citizen or a inexperienced card holder. All they want is a beginning certificates exhibiting that they have been born right here. You, me, most individuals we all know, we’re residents due to our beginning. And as soon as the federal government takes that away, as soon as it introduces this wild, chaotic new system the place it depends upon your dad and mom, and also you get punished in case your dad and mom didn’t have the appropriate papers, then everybody’s citizenship is thrown into disarray, and advocates have to current that very clearly to the Supreme Court docket as a result of, frankly, this conservative majority may be very selective in its empathy,” Stern argued.
Fox Information’ Breanne Deppisch, Shannon Bream and Invoice Mears contributed to this report.