In Reply to: He's got nothing better to do with his time. * posted by UCLADal on April 01, 2026 at 10:57:36
Great excerpts of the trial from Huffpost...
The examples that Sauer offered to justify his redefinition of birthright citizenship were “very quirky,” Chief Justice John Roberts said. And he wasn’t sure how Sauer could extrapolate these “tiny and idiosyncratic examples” to “that big group” of undocumented immigrants.
It wasn’t hard to hear the disdain in Justice Neil Gorsuch’s voice when he noted Sauer was relying on “Roman law sources” to support his argument.
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Roberts really brought down the hammer when he asked Sauer about the relevance of his use of stories about birth tourism in his opening argument.
“You do agree that has no impact on the legal analysis before us,” Roberts said.
Sauer responded with a long-winded explanation of how the authors of the 14th Amendment couldn’t possibly have approved and that today we live in a “new world where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who’s a U.S. citizen.”
“It’s a new world, but it’s the same Constitution,” Roberts responded.