2/2: #SCOTUS: ORIGINALIST RE BIRTHRIGHT. JOHN YOO, CIVITAS INSTITUTE
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my colleague, Professor John Yu, Emmanuel S. S. L. Professor Vlad Berkeley, |
| 0:09.7 | and a distinguished visiting scholar at Civitas Institute, the University of Texas. |
| 0:15.2 | John, we've got a couple of minutes, and that's all it needs for you, to say we got a six member, a nine member member of the court. |
| 0:24.0 | Six of them are said to be right of center, three not. |
| 0:26.9 | Does it kick the can down the road? |
| 0:28.5 | Does it make a decision on birthright citizenship? |
| 0:30.6 | We've got three minutes. |
| 0:32.5 | I think I go with the way your question might have been leading, which is I think the six right of center justices are going to focus on the nationwide injunction question. |
| 0:44.3 | And once they say no more nationwide injunctions, then they'll say, and now we're going to send the case back down to those district judges. |
| 0:51.9 | And they have to reconsider it. |
| 0:53.9 | And as you say, kick the can down |
| 0:55.4 | the road on birthright citizenship because it will return to the court in about a year. Because those |
| 1:00.6 | same district judges will probably block the executive order again and then this will get appealed |
| 1:06.1 | up the normal process. And that takes about a year to get to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:11.6 | The reason why I think they will do that is I think Chief Justice Roberts is worried about |
| 1:18.6 | the political pressure that's being placed on the court. |
| 1:21.1 | You have people calling for the impeachment of judges, people suggesting in the administration |
| 1:26.0 | that they won't follow judicial orders. |
| 1:27.9 | I think Chief Justice Roberts responded in public saying impeachment is not appropriate in these |
| 1:32.9 | circumstances. |
| 1:33.5 | Pretty remarkable. |
| 1:34.8 | So one thing that this case offers, I think, the Chief Justice is the opportunity to give |
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