Trump’s Crazed New Eruptions of Fury at SCOTUS Already Set to Backfire

It’s a good thing that he showed up in court for the birthright citizenship arguments. It helps ensure that he’ll own this morally repugnant effort to gut the constitutional promise of equality.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump decided to attend the Supreme Court’s arguments over the birthright citizenship case, which will decide whether Trump can wipe away by royal decree the plain meaning of the Constitution and many decades of precedent to end the guarantee of citizenship to those born in the United States.

Trump is very angry at the high court. Earlier this week, he erupted on Truth Social, raging over the “STUPID” ruling against his tariffs—which was legally correct—and urging the “dumb” justices to side with him this time, or else. Trump’s rage drove him to show his face before the court in an obvious effort to intimidate the justices into doing his bidding.

Good. Trump’s presence will stamp his face all over this travesty. It will serve as a reminder that core to the Trump-MAGA project is the goal of ending the constitutional guarantee of equality of birth and replacing it with hierarchical citizenship dictated by heritage and blood. Let Trump remain firmly associated with this effort forever.

Fortunately, during Wednesday’s oral arguments, the justices treated Trump Solicitor General John Sauer with great skepticism. He had to defend Trump’s executive order, which would end automatic citizenship for large classes of American-born children with undocumented parents. But the justices seemed to reject the main arguments purporting to undercut the Fourteenth Amendment’s clear declaration that........

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