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Look, we all knew from President Donald Trump’s first day back in office, when he signed an executive order to limit birthright citizenship, that his war on birthright citizenship was just an extension of his white nationalist, vehemently xenophobic war on immigration in general.
The president is a racist bigot, who hates Black and brown foreigners, as do his cultists and constituents, and that’s all there is to the MAGA agenda.
So, it should surprise no one that now that the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the Trump administration’s anti-birthright citizenship case on Wednesday, and according to the New York Times, Donald Trump himself showed up to the court on Wednesday morning to hear the arguments challenging his executive order.
Trump officials are citing the wisdom of Jim Crow-era white supremacists to justify ending the constitutional protection, even as the president invokes the “BABIES OF SLAVES” in relaying his understanding of the true intent of the Fourteenth Amendment.
According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration is following the playbook of Alexander Porter Morse, a Confederate officer during the Civil War and a Louisiana attorney, who argued for legalized segregation in the landmark 1896 Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine and Jim Crow laws.
From the Post:
The Trump administration has tapped Morse as an authority in its push to upend long-settled law that virtually everyone born in the United States is a citizen.
Over a century ago, Morse was among a trio of thinkers who spearheaded a failed effort — steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism — to erase birthright citizenship. The Trump administration is reviving their arguments to make its case today, some legal scholars say.
The administration is citing arguments “built on a racist foundation,” Justin Sadowsky, an attorney for the Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance (CALDA), wrote in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Lucy Salyer, a University of New Hampshire history professor who has written on Morse and others, said she was struck that the Trump administration had chosen to elevate those figures and their ideas: “If you know the history and the broader context of what they were trying to achieve, it does ring alarm bells.
Asked why it was relying on the words and ideology of an impassioned racist and segregationist to make its case, the Trump administration didn’t deny citing Morse and his compatriots, but instead pointed to a brief in which it wrote, “This Court has repeatedly cited their work in other contexts.”
In other words: Sure, we’re invoking a white supremacist of yesteryear to bolster white supremacy today, but this sin’t the Court’s first white supremacist rodeo, so why are you even trippin’?
But please, tell us more about how Trump isn’t racist, nor is his administration.
Speaking of Trump, while his officials are touting the framework of an anti-Black racist, the president is taking a different approach by reminding Americans that birthright citizenship was intended to correct the evils of slavery, a subject Trump would sooner ban into un-woke oblivion rather than discuss in any other context.
“Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America,” Trump posted on Truth Social Monday. “It is about the BABIES OF SLAVES! We are the only Country in the World that dignifies this subject with even discussion. Look at the dates of this long ago legislation – THE EXACT END OF THE CIVIL WAR!”
Source: Donald Trump Attends Supreme Court Hearing On Birthright Citizenship
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