While we won the case today, we also got a grave warning about the future. What should have been a simple unanimous, open and shut decision was dangerously close. Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh failed to recognize the fundamental constitutional right to birthright citizenship. Three of those four justices would have allowed Donald Trump to rewrite the Constitution and overrule Congress with an executive order. (13:47–13:58)
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Asserts that four Supreme Court justices did not acknowledge the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.
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