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Why MAGA's latest Supreme Court freak out is 'especially galling' — even for them
Trump Lost on Birthright Citizenship. The Right Still Tried to Make Barrett Pay.The Real Story Was the AttemptThe headline is not that Donald Trump took a legal loss. The headline is that he tried to force the Supreme Court to let him rewrite birthright citizenship without Congress, which means trying to sidestep the Constitution when the Constitution is inconvenient. Legal experts across the spectrum called it what it was: blatantly unconstitutional.That is the center of the story. Not the court’s etiquette. Not the hurt feelings of MAGA commentators. Not the performance of outrage after the…
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