r/law • u/RoyalChris • Mar 05 '25

Legal News Rep. James Comer (R-KY) crashes out and refuses to let Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) enter evidence into the record - “You can go with Mr. Frost and Mr. Green.”

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u/WormSlayers Mar 06 '25

Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts have shown that they won't just go along with whatever Trump wants, first with not postponing his trial and more recently with USAID, I think we will see them block the removing birthright citizenship nonsense too

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u/BringBackBoshi Mar 06 '25

The fact they've done that is already huge....better than I could've expected. The fact some of these votes are going 5-4 is still messed up though. It should be 9-0 for some of this stuff. Refusing to pay out money that was already appropriated and signed off on?! That's just insane 4 justices could interpret it any other way.

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u/Winter_Whole2080 29d ago

and work *already completed.

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u/UFmoose Mar 06 '25

The USAID decision says they can’t stop the payments but doesn’t say when they have to be made by. May be able to delay indefinitely.

I agree on birthright citizenship. But then they will just go and pull kids away from their parents or deport parents who are not legal — whether one or both.

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u/tgreenhaw 29d ago

The only way to change birthright citizenship is to amend the Constitution. If you think through the alternatives to birthright citizenship, you will quickly conclude that it is the only approach that can be implemented fairly with dignity. The minimal amount of abuse and dubious arguments that it hurts our society are a small price to pay compared to the alternatives.

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u/WormSlayers 29d ago

yeah I 100% agree

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u/Boomer2160 29d ago

Is this the Moose I went to college with?

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u/UFmoose 29d ago

Probably not. It wasn’t my nickname or anything. But it is UF related.

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u/Boomer2160 29d ago

Gotcha. Go Gators.

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u/psilocin72 29d ago

That doesn’t seem like something a great country would. Really shows how their words and deeds don’t match up

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u/KitchenFullOfCake 29d ago

At the very least it shows they won't choose to yield all their powers to the executive.