SCOTUS, The President and Birthright Citizenship.
Let us bypass the screaming and clothes-ripping from the Left because the President sat at the hearings. I thought it was a non-issue since the case was started by his administration and he is the head honcho.
My feeling is that this one will not go the way the President wants if he really wants it. I believe that some moves are just pure distraction/misdirection while other things are being cooked. But what I see is that the concept of Anchor Baby is already dismantled and if taken to court all the way to SCOTUS, its alleged use to keep illegal aliens in country will be severely diminished if not completely render useless.
We saw the beginning of the end of Anchor Babies in 2019 and got recorded in this video:
AOC: You recommended family separation.
Homan: I recommended zero tolerance
AOC: Which includes family separation.
Homan: The same as every U.S. Citizen who gets arrested with a child.
It is going to be a legal bitch to assert in court that an Illegal Alien has more rights than an U.S. Citizen and make it stand. I believe that will be an impossibility unless the whole SCOTUS is removed and substituted with dumber clones of Justice Ketanji Brown.
At least that is my opinion and sure as hell IANAL.
I think being able to understand the words that the law is comprised of should be a requisite for sitting on the high bench. If a person is unable to contextualize a word like "regulated" into its actual meaning from the founding documents, then they never should have passed the Bar Exam, much less made it to the Supreme Court. You and I seem to have a better understanding of the Law than your example listed above, despite our lack of "qualifications", initial language, or birthplace. We are intelligent enough to at least know what we don't know, without the need to redefine terms to fit the desired goal. I flatly reject the Stupid and their decrees, credentials notwithstanding, and I agree with your assessment.
I've been a foster parent, I can tell you for ABSOLUTE FACT that Tom Homan is correct: Parents who are arrested and jailed get separated from their children. I know, I was one of the people who cared for those children. Rich or poor; white, black, or hispanic; citizen or non-citizen -- everyone is treated equally in that regard ... and yes, we cared for the children of every type. (Foster parent training teaches you to recognize the signs of different kinds of abuse and neglect, but the vast majority of kids coming through our home weren't abused; their parents were in jail on drug-related charges.)
I always felt that Homan absolutely *owned* AOC in that exchange. Everything he said was 100% factual and correct, and she was left looking like a fool, trying to catch him in a "Gotcha!" moment and utterly failing. No, seeking asylum is not illegal, but there are rules and a legal framework in which to do it -- and as immigration/visa applications go, it's one of the easier ways to get in, by design. If someone isn't following the rules and operating within that framework, they aren't seeking asylum, they're seeking entry by any means. There's a huge difference and Homan did a good job demonstrating it.