A Seattle judge will hear four states’ request this Thursday to temporarily block President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign parents. In their petition, these states – Washington, Illinois, Oregon and Arizona – ask that the executive order be suspended while the federal court considers their legal challenge. A group of 18 other Democratic-led states, along with the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco, filed a separate appeal. The same goes for civil society groups. The case could end up before the Supreme Court. But will Trump comply with the decisions of the highest American court if he is dismissed?
The conservative columnist and jurist of New York Times David French raises this question in an article published this Thursday, as the first of a series of legal challenges begins that will not be limited to the question of land law. French justifies this question by invoking the decisions and decrees announced since Monday by Trump. It essentially takes up the examples that I presented the day before yesterday in a post published on the new president’s full-scale assault on the rule of law, ranging from this decree denying land law to his refusal to apply the new law prohibiting TikTok through its decision to extend its clemency to the January 6 criminals.
After notably recalling that Trump’s decree on birthright citizenship goes against the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and more than a century of jurisprudence, French added: “But this legal analysis misses a point. essential question: will Trump comply with the Supreme Court’s decisions? Or will he ignore decisions he doesn’t like, demand that the executive bend to his will, and then pardon the men and women who might criminally defy the Supreme Court?
“If you think this scenario is far-fetched […] remember that in 2021, JD Vance said in a podcast: “I think what Trump should do, […] is to fire all the mid-level bureaucrats, all the civil servants of the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts […] stop you, stand before the country, like Andrew Jackson did, and say, ‘The Chief Justice has made his decision, now let him carry it out’.” »
The statement Vance attributes to the 7th president is likely apocryphal. But the attitude she expresses could influence Trump. Especially since he always had a weakness for Jackson, as proven by the return to the Oval Office of the portrait of this president responsible for the expulsion of “Indians” from the Southeastern States to the territories located in west of the Mississippi.
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This is the first court hearing on the executive order, signed by Mr. Trump on Monday, which aims to end citizenship rights for children born in the United States to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily .
A group of 18 other Democratic-led states, along with the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco, filed a separate appeal.
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