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MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend unloaded on the Supreme Courtroom’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 individuals must 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 all the things that we all know to be true. That is insane,” Sanders Townsend mentioned.
The Supreme Courtroom 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 challenge injunctions solely in restricted situations, 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. (Picture by: Shannon Finney/NBC through Getty Photos)
UPENDING US BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP WOULD HAVE DRASTIC NEGATIVE IMPACT, DEFENDERS WARN
The Supreme Courtroom agreed this 12 months to take up a trio of consolidated instances 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 enchantment to the Supreme Courtroom was overly broad.
“The functions don’t elevate – and thus we don’t deal with – the query whether or not the Government Order violates the Citizenship Clause or Nationality Act,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett mentioned, writing for almost all. “The problem earlier than us is certainly one of treatment: whether or not, beneath the Judiciary Act of 1789, federal courts have equitable authority to challenge common injunctions.”
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend unloaded on the Supreme Courtroom’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 need 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 might clarify how Trump’s order would work in observe.
“When a toddler is born in America, the physician doesn’t demand the papers of their mother and father to make sure that they’re a citizen or a inexperienced card holder. All they want is a start certificates displaying that they have been born right here. You, me, most individuals we all know, we’re residents due to our start. And as soon as the federal government takes that away, as soon as it introduces this wild, chaotic new system the place it relies on your mother and father, and also you get punished in case your mother and father didn’t have the appropriate papers, then everybody’s citizenship is thrown into disarray, and advocates must current that very clearly to the Supreme Courtroom as a result of, frankly, this conservative majority could be very selective in its empathy,” Stern argued.
Fox Information’ Breanne Deppisch, Shannon Bream and Invoice Mears contributed to this report.
Hanna Panreck is an affiliate editor at Fox Information.
