I rounded up the arguments here and here this morning on the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara, that was argued this morning. It was expected to be hard sledding for Solicitor General D. John Sauer, and it was. While some of the justices, notably Samuel Alito, had tough questions for ACLU lawyer Cecillia Wang as well, there wasn't anyone unambiguously taking Sauer's side. And out of what we might think of as the Court's "center" these days — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh — it was hard to find much ...

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