Source: Los Angeles Times
by Erwin Chemerinsky
“Cases before the Supreme Court inevitably present hard issues of law and almost always involve questions over matters about which the lower courts have disagreed. But the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship is an easy question of law and every single judge to rule on it has found it to be unconstitutional. On Wednesday, the justices will hear oral arguments in Trump vs. Barbara, and even for a conservative court that has repeatedly sided with the president, it is hard to imagine the justices upholding an executive order that is so clearly in violation of historical practice, the text of the Constitution and decided precedents.” (03/31/26)