Spineless Republicans Are Part of a Bigger Problem
The problems have thought that long is now to be won. But “they will not get what they want,” said Omar Jadwat of the ACLU immigrant rights project.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, talks to journalists as she got into the Senate metro after a vote at the American Capitol on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
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A few hours after the Supreme Court rendered its decision, which reduced the use of the lower courts of the injunctions at the national level – in response to the Trump administration which asked him to take the question in the wake of federal judges interrupted his executive order on the citizenship of the right of birth – ACLU and several other organizations have filed a series of proceedings of collective appeals designed to take effect.
The case of ACLU has been filed in New Hampshire, and the oral arguments on the request aimed at issuing a preliminary injunction will be heard next Wednesday. Another case, led by the Georgetown University Law School’s advocacy and constitutional protection institute, was deposited in Maryland. Both are looking for a national recovery for the class of complainants represented in costumes. The state of New Jersey has also tabled a legal action arguing that it should lose if people born in the United States but without access to the rights of American citizens enter the state and cannot guarantee advantages to which they would otherwise have the right. The state argues that it also needs national aid to protect its interests.
Although Omar Jadwat, Director of the ACLU immigrant rights project, believes that the decision achieving the use of national injunctions will be destructive in the long term, with regard to the specificities of the Citizenship of Citizenship of Rights of Wine, it is of the opinion that the Supreme Court has left enough margin of allowing significant pressure. When the push manages to push, he says, he thinks that children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants or those who under temporary visas will not be refused citizenship and ordered expelled shortly after birth.
There is the Route des Appeals Collects. But he also noted that there was the provision under the law on administrative procedures which allows a court to cancel – under the concept of vacature–Actions of the agency which violate the constitution or otherwise violate the law. Persons clearing Trump’s executive orders on the citizenship of the right of ripens argue that the Social Security Administration and other agencies were breaking several rules and constitutional provisions by refusing social security numbers, passports and birth certificates to children of undocumented residents. Trump is, says Jadwat, “to make a real race to rewrite the fourteenth amendment, [but] At the end of the day, they will not get what they want. »»
The fact that the president and his team can even seriously make one of the most consecutive constitutional changes speaks volumes where the country is six months after the Trump administration. The problems have thought that long is now to be won.
And these are not only bad decrees and unprecedented justice decisions. At all levels of the three branches of the government, there is a rot which makes its way through the system and eroding the protections previously guaranteed by the Constitution. This week, the shameful adoption of Trump’s “big and beautiful bill” in the Senate said everything. The bill will strip millions of people of access to Medicaid and millions of other access to other health insurance policies via the provisions of the affordable care law and will distance the nutritional assistance from millions of Americans. If you thought the safety net systems were fighting and guaranteed, during the progressive era, the New Deal and the Grande Society were a pillar of modern society, think again. If you thought that after a decade and more combat, the coverage of increased health care generated by the affordable care law was now a generally accepted part of the social fabric, you were, it seems, wrong.
It turns out that, under Trump, the GOP is targeting almost all social programs, regardless of popular support for these programs, or even how many voters in the GOP states are affected.
I am far too cynical at this stage to think that the big old party will never take the morally straight way when it is presented with a choice between decency and depravity. Even so, let’s take a break for a moment and at least the verification senator from the name Lisa Murkowski for her really crazy display this week.
From time to time, Murkowski obtains accessories for saying that it is horrified or dismayed by an authoritarian action or another; However, with regard to the vote on what could be the most consecutive and destructive legislation in Trump’s second term, she held some sculptures to protect the Alaskiens of the ravages inflicted on residents of all other states before voting in favor of legislation. Compare his miserable behavior with that of the deceased senator John McCain, when he refused to be the decisive vote to overthrow affordable care law without any replacement program ready to catch those who lose their health care.
The media reported that the vote was decided by vice-president JD Vance, who intervened to break the draw. This is technically true. But as everyone knew that Vance was a “yes” on this subject, it is more correct to say that Murkowski, the supposed adult in a play full of headdresses of Maga, was the break in equality here.
Alaska knew, as soon as it had done it, that it had done a very bad thing. Like a capricious child looking for a free moral passage from her parents, she quickly sought to apologize by saying that he was “dying” to vote for the bill. It is assumed that it was not as scary for her that the consequences of this vote will be for the tens of millions of Americans already at low income whose life is about to get worse. It is assumed that its mental anxiety will not be as pronounced as for millions of immigrants, including refugees, suddenly prevented from accessing security net programs. It is also assumed that its anxiety in the transfer of tens of billions of dollars of environmental, health, nutritional and educational programs, and in the police and the imprisonment of undocumented immigrants does not quite correspond to the experiences of men and women who work hard at accelerating ice squares. It is assumed that its anxiety to considerably increase the national debt in order to channel billions of dollars in super-rich tax reductions will not rise at the same levels of pain as the pain of students who can no longer access affordable loans for their higher studies, or the renewable energy companies which will now be destroyed due to the taxes of the industry against them by the authors of this legislation malicious.
In short, the false rings of anguish of Murkowski as hollow as the selfish justification of Susan Collins to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court.
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Collins said that he had been promised that Kavanaugh would respect the previous one and not tear the established road rules. Of course, it did not last long, as evidenced by the Dobbs decision. Murkowski went better than Collins: she did not even obtain false promises of the Republicans of Maga not to injure the poor; All she obtained was some minor sculptures concerning precisely how many poor in Alaska would be introduced into bombing and how fast.
In short, if you are looking for “moderate” of the GOP to roll at the rescue, you settle down to be disappointed. Murkowski will not save America, just as Susan Collins has not saved the rights of abortion. This generation of GOP political figures was completely dirty in the Trumpian mud. Do you want change? Vote the tramps. Each of the last of them. Fample against Murkowski as hard as you would do it against any other Maga passionate. Of course, Murkowski occasionally speaks the speech. But when it comes to walking, it turns out that, as with the master of the house in The miserable“There is not much there.”
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