Birthright Defiance: Court Clash at 78%
Seventy-eight percent. Trump's second executive order on birthright citizenship cites *Trump v. Barbara* for precisely the proposition the Court's majority spent three pages explicitly rejecting. This is not ambiguity — it is a structural dare. The administration is betting the Supreme Court will not hold a sitting president in contempt of its own ruling, and that bet has a ceiling. The Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause has survived 158 years of creative statutory interpretation; what it has not survived until now is an executive order that inverts a Supreme Court holding and then footnotes that holding as authority. The appeals court has already halted the ballroom project on separation-of-powers grounds. The same logic applies here, and faster.
