The US Supreme Court Thread

I dunno, but they could probably beat the Atlanta Hawks at any sport, basketball included.

 

Or.. Hear me out here.. How about y'all take this discussion to the MLS boards?

 

I am going to go out on a limb, and it may cost me my friendship with Auria, but no. Even in Atlanta terms this isn't the best. Not even in soccer terms. '69 Chiefs baby!

 

Where's the fun in that?

 

Thank you.

 

Question for our legal scholars

Today Trump indicates he wanted to end birthright citizenship via executive order.

Obviously unconstitutional.

If he issues it anyway...it would go to the Supreme Court.

If 5 justices issue an opinion that states”we think he should be able to do this. And now he can. Because scoreboard!”

Is there anything that can be done?

 

Citizenship is a set of rights not some declared status. 1st one of his departments would have to deny a citizen something they are entitled to like a passport or some benefits. Then the administration would be taken to district court.

 

I get that.

But when (if) it went all the way to the Supreme Court....could they just say scoreboard?

 

I dont see any reason why not but I'm no legal scholar.

 

Lol... you gave that post more attention than it deserved... We certainly played flat Sunday. And we were trailing the alleged worst team (after Sunday, that might be us) in the league 3-1 a few weeks ago before tying our laces.

 

The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that 200+ years ago the SC took upon itself the power to make such decisions and everyone else went along. Such a ruling would be chaos. It’s like asking, couldnt Trump as C in C order the Army to arrest all the Democrats in Congress.

 

Good god, man, don't give the orange ignoramus any ideas!

 

I realize you don't go to the United games, but do you even watch them on TV? If you want to go to a game PM me.

 

I believe the term for this hypothetical is 'Constitutional Crisis'

 

That's the thing; As far-fetched and absurd as those ideas sound to us, they have slowly - well, I mean gradually, become possible, mainly because the Republican Congress has not fulfilled their duties as a counterbalance to the Executive Branch.

IOW, the Trump administration keeps pushing wilder and wilder policies that were supposed to be curtailed by Congress, but they actually become government actions, because the same congress act as if they either didn't have any oversight power, or as if the proposals were not unconstitutional.

So if the GOP keeps control of congress next week, it might be very well possible for Trump to make changes to the way citizenship is interpreted and to those changes to actually take place. And even if the new policy was fought at every stage, we could eventually see a case taken to the Supreme Court, where the conservative majority would side with Trump.

 

The last two years have been an ongoing constitutional crisis....

 

"In theory."

 

Now I know who the "some people say" actually was that Trump was referring to when stating that Congress could change who is a citizen.

 

Nobody cares enough there.