Rep. @GregCasar: I wish I could stand before you today and say this ruling was only good news, but it is not. 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. If these far right justices are ruling against our rights, even when they're black and white in the Constitution, then nothing we hold dear is safe.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson (D-NC):
“The Constitution is clear. The 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to any person born on U.S. soil. The Supreme Court has upheld that principle for over a century, so when an executive order tried to end it and deny children born in this country their constitutional rights, I challenged it."
All of those born here are American citizens -- that's the American idea & the majority opinion traces its full arc
@DDFund_ is proud to have been co-counsel — one of our most meaningful wins yet @MSNOW_Reports👇-TN
Hunter Biden says his mom postponed their family trip by one day to buy a Christmas tree. The next day, they were in the crash that killed her and his baby sister
“He wins, and he goes to DC for the day to interview potential staffers. And my mom was supposed to go down because they just bought a house, with us”
“And she decided to delay it a day because she wanted to buy a Christmas tree. It was December 18th, because we were celebrating Christmas in Delaware”
“She was pulling out from an intersection, a stop sign, there’s a big hill and a tractor-trailer slammed into the side. It was me, my brother, and our dog… and my sister and my mother”
“Bo and I barely survived. We were trapped in the car. But my sister and my mom were killed pretty instantly”
“I was almost three. Bo was almost four”
Trump says bringing down the cost of housing is so unimportant compared to his other priorities.
He keeps reminding us how little he cares about reducing prices.
It’s time we believed him.
Giving Trump access to a secret list of Russians being targeted for recruitment or tracked by US intelligence would be a colossal mistake and threat to US security interests.
Kamlager-Dove on Rubio Iran Briefing: I have to say, the highlight—or lowlight—for me was when Secretary Rubio was asked about the difference between this MOU and the JCPOA. And Marco Rubio essentially said the JCPOA, Obama’s nuclear deal, was a real agreement with criteria, benchmarks, and thresholds.
And this MOU is just a signed piece of paper saying we’re going to continue to talk about talking. So you should ask yourself, a hundred-and-something billion dollars later, what are these people doing with our money and our national security?
Michelle Obama on the portrait with Obama.
Q: You are in the foreground. You are not in the background.
Michelle: That's because I married a man who isn't threatened by having a smart challenging partner. And that's another way to be a man. To lead and co-lead at the same time. That's a testament to the way my husband was raised and how he sees the world.
Birthright citizenship remains constitutionally protected by the 14th Amendment.
But today we learned that U.S. constitutional guarantees — even the "right to have rights" — can be one vote away from being nullified via executive order, if enough justices agree with a fringe legal theory.
It's easy to laugh at the failed fairs, empty crowds, and vanity projects. It's much harder to ignore what's happening behind the scenes.
Trump's latest failures may be laughable. The damage to our institutions isn't.
One thing that's interesting about Justice Roberts's birthright citizenship opinion is how his careful explanation of history shows how the immigration debate rarely changes. The argument that "these people are too different to join us" has just failed, socially, culturally, economically, and morally, time and time again.
Mayor @ZohranKMamdani: In January, our city was reckoning with a $12 billion deficit, a fiscal crisis larger than any since the Great Recession. For too long, New York City had relied on budgeting tricks instead of budgeting honestly. After long nights and painstaking work, we presented an executive budget that brought that $12 billion gap down to zero.
If there's one thing Americans can agree on, it's that there's too much money in politics.
But the Supreme Court just decided to demolish some of the last safeguards we had left - creating an even bigger role for special interest spending.
We must do whatever it takes - including a constitutional amendment if necessary - to combat the influence of money in our political system.
Florida’s homeowners insurance market has collapsed, and families are paying the price.
On day one, I’ll introduce a state catastrophic fund to remove hurricane and wind coverage from the private market, protect homeowners, and cut insurance costs by 60 to 70%.
Florida can lead the nation in making sure families are covered, communities can recover, and homeowners are no longer trapped in a broken system.
Birthright citizenship is more than a law...it is a promise that if you are born here, you belong here.
On the eve of America's 250th birthday, may we always keep this promise: "We The People" means all of us.