This corrupt bastard belongs in prison.
BREAKING: SERIOUSLY? Mike Johnson literally GROWLS in anger after a reporter informs him that the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in the middle of his press conference.
When good men rejoice, evil mourns...
"'Children have rights' has him spiraling," wrote X user @welchmeyer in response to a clip of Johnson's outburst.
"So, birthright citizenship, which as I speak, has not come down yet, but it helped hundreds of thousands of formerly enslaved people in Louisiana," a reporter said. "Now, do you as a constitutional lawyer and representative to the descendants of some of those people who were enslaved agree with the President that it should be done away with? It helped hundreds of thousands of people, but it has not come down yet. But do you agree with the President that it should be done away with?"
"What— What was the— I missed the first part of the question. What—" replied the House Speaker.
The reporter clarified that they were discussing birthright citizenship.
"Oh, birthright, sorry, birthright citizenship," said Johnson. "Yeah, okay, look, yes, as a constitutional lawyer, I've got lots of opinions on this. Okay, I understand what the framers did, and when we added this to our constitutional order, I understood what the intent was—"
"Oh, it just came down," someone in the room whispered.
"Oh dear, what did they rule?" Johnson asked.
"It says 'Children born in the United States, parents unlawfully or temporarily present are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and our citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause," a reporter read. "What's your reaction to that?"
Johnson let loose a low, angry growl in response, inhaling deeply in frustration as he looked around at the audience.
"Well. Uh. I need to read the opinion, okay?" he said. "But obviously that's, I mean, you could say that's a textualist, originalist view. However, I do think, umm, that this has been grossly abused in recent years, okay?"
The court ruled in a 6-3 opinion that Trump violated the 14th Amendment when he signed an Executive Order to dismantle birthright citizenship. The court's decision represents a massive defeat for the President's racist, nativist agenda and white nationalists en masse are melting down all across social media.
This is the rare occasion where the Republican-controlled court has made the obviously correct decision, because birthright citizenship is clearly delineated in the Constitution.
The same conservatives who insist that our founding document is etched in stone and must be interpreted as the Founders intended are all too happy to toss out that worldview the moment that it advantages their short-term political desires.
In Johnson's case, it's not that he necessarily has a strong ideological commitment to Trump's immigration agenda (although he certainly likes the idea of a whiter America), it's more that he wants to please the xenophobic MAGA base so that they'll vote Republican as he works towards his only real goal: a Christian Nationalist theocracy. With that in mind, every setback for this administration is a setback for Johnson and a victory for our democracy.
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