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Roiled GOP can't agree on path forward after massive Supreme Court defeat: report
The Constitution Said No. The GOP Started Shopping for a Loophole.The Power MapThe Supreme Court, not Donald Trump, set the boundary here. In Trump v. Barbara, John Roberts wrote for the majority that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly all children born on U.S. soil, and even Amy Coney Barrett joined the bloc that blocked Trump’s Day 1 order. That is the actual institutional fact pattern: the executive tried to redefine citizenship by fiat, and the Court refused to let him do it.Trump’s Shortcut FailedTrump’s move was never a serious constitutional argument. It was an attempt…
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