'Chaos all the way down': Analyst melts down over Supreme Court ruling
Slate Senior Writer Mark Stern had a lot to say on Friday about a recent Supreme Court ruling.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Trump v. CASA that made nationwide injunctions illegal. Injunctions are court orders that prevent a government entity from enforcing a law or policy. The court said that such provisions amounted to judicial overreach.
The ruling sparked outrage from legal experts and court watchers alike, with one analyst calling it a "trap" that the court willingly walked through.
Stern said there are some technical maneuvers lawyers can make to force the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue, like certifying a class action lawsuit.
However, there are still some big issues left on the table for the court to sort through, Stern continued. Those issues range from the merits of the case they just decided and the practicality of President Donald Trump's order to end birthright citizenship altogether.
"This is the fundamental problem," Stern said. "No one can explain how Trump's order would work in practice. No one. Because the only reason that the vast majority of us have citizenship is because we were born here. When a child is born in America, the doctor doesn't demand the papers of their parents to ensure they are a citizen or a green card holder."
Stern added that Trump's order would create a situation where everyone's citizenship is called into question, and that could have massive legal implications going forward.
"This is going to destabilize the fundamental right of citizenship for everybody," Stern said. "It is going to have massive downstream consequences in a really horrible and unworkable way...It's chaos all the way down."