During the Supreme Court oral arguments over President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, Justice Brett Kavanaugh grilled the administration's lawyer on the practical logistics of the policy. Kavanaugh repeatedly asked, "how is it going to work—what do hospitals do with a newborn? What do states do with a newborn?" The Trump administration's Solicitor General struggled to answer, conceding that federal officials would "have to figure that out". When Kavanaugh pressed on the fact that the administration's plan would require checking the immigration status of the parents of over 3.6 million babies born in the U.S. every year, the lawyer admitted, "we just don't know". https://www.law.virginia.edu/node/2199376 NB This line of questioning highlighted the legal chaos that opponents of the order—including the states challenging the policy—argued would occur in delivery rooms across the country. And Sauer could say nothing other than they'll have to work it out.
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