The Birthright Citizenship Case Is Actually Something Differently Terrible

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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OA1158 - We start off with some patron questions about what to do when ICE comes to your neighborhood, the one thing that the world’s most annoying white libertarians got right, and how to best exercise the very few rights US citizens have coming back into the country. Then in our main story: This week the Supreme Court heard arguments over birthright citizenship--or did it? Matt explains how they might do something even worse than expected while still striking down Trump’s attempt to end the Constitutional right to citizenship for everyone born on US soil by executive order.

Finally, we polish off today’s episode with a meaty footnote about the lies and tyranny of a very different kind of would-be monarch.

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0:00.0	You must never ever give out or give in. You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize.
0:07.6	That is your calling. That is your mission. That is your moral obligation. That is your mandate.
0:13.4	Get out there and do it. Get in the way. Change happens because people care.
0:26.6	You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:36.6	I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:44.1	I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry,
0:47.9	no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong.
0:55.0	The fight for our country is always worth it.
0:58.7	Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
1:00.7	This is episode 1158.
1:02.9	I'm Thomas Smith, not a lawyer.
1:04.6	That over there is Matt Cameron.
1:05.5	Lawyer.
1:06.4	How are you doing, Matt?
1:08.7	Well, I spent two and a half hours listening to the Supreme Court,
1:10.8	I argue about nothing for no reason, so you tell me.
1:11.8	Oof, yeah.
1:12.8	I'm still mad about the last one, the religious case.
1:15.8	Like that one has me so mad that I need more time before I can listen.
1:19.8	But you know what?
1:20.7	That time has come, and today we're going to listen to a little bit of some terrible opening
1:24.4	arguments.
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