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Trump sets up showdown with Supreme Court over issue it already decided
Trump Is Not Testing the Constitution. He Is Testing Whether Defiance Has ConsequencesThe Power Is in the White HouseDonald Trump is not wandering into a legal dispute. He is using executive power to re-open a question the Supreme Court already answered at the end of June, when it ruled his prior birthright-citizenship order unconstitutional. He then returned with new executive orders, standing beside Stephen Miller, and dared the courts to stop him again.That is the political fact at the center of this story: the president is using the machinery of the presidency to pressure the Constitution…
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