Hannah Arendt wrote extensively about the moral and physical peril that results from creation of a class of stateless people. It deprives them, she wrote, “of the right to have rights.”
Trump is going to attend arguments on the Supreme Court’s hearing on Trump’s EO which seeks to strip Americans of birthright citizenship, creating a class of stateless people. History shows this does not end well.
The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.
— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 7:20 PM