Harry Litman: Efforts to Ban Birthright Citizenship Is ‘So Friggin’ Deeply Unamerican’

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LITMAN: "Look, all of these cases, the Callais case that you mentioned, this overruling today, the overruling yesterday were all culminations of long-term projects, a long horizontal line. We know that Roberts has wanted to overrule Humphrey’s executor since the '80s. As Kagan says, the pride of place in the Republican National Committee case just went to Thomas’ dissent, just going the other way in 2001. And that is what is particularly harrowing about even the case, Chris, that people are touting today as some great victory. It is exactly, as you say, a completely easy case where the 14th Amendment just says what it says, but instead of closing the door on it forever, as it should have, with the Kavanaugh opinion, you now have four votes that Trump seized on to try to work his will in Congress, in his coercive way, to try to revisit this question, which to just cite Sherrilyn, who really, that was a beautiful presentation, it’s so friggin' deeply un-American, among other things. But I think you really need to see all of these as part of a long-standing campaign that is reaching the end point in the ones that have come out the last couple of days, but maybe — maybe there’s more to come."