A legal expert shared a sobering warning on Thursday about President Donald Trump’s continued efforts to dismantle birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court rebuffed his latest attempt.
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Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, told Michael Popok, a lawyer and host of “The Intersection” podcast, on a recent episode that the Trump administration’s birthright citizenship case was “just the tip of the spear.” Last year, the administration signed an executive order stripping birthright citizenship from people who are born in the country but whose parents are here illegally. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Wednesday that the executive order was unconstitutional.
Wofsy warned during the interview that the Supreme Court’s decision is not the end of the road for the Trump administration’s efforts.
“What cases like the Birthright decision show is that we can keep fighting and we can win these fights,” Wofsy said. “There are battles so fundamental and central to who we are as a country that we can overcome.”
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“I hope that gives some hope to those who may be feeling a little hopeless in this moment, but I also don’t want to at all undercut that this is an incredibly frightening and demoralizing time for so many people in our communities,” he continued.
“This is an example of our allies, our communities, the American people, who stood up and said no to this idea of rewriting a fundamental constitutional guarantee, and we held the line in this case,” he added. “It’s an example of why we have to keep fighting, but it is by far not the end of the fight.”
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