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Sky News AU
2 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
MSNBC host has meltdown over Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend has had a meltdown following the Supreme Court's ruling on birthright citizenship. During a panel discussion on Friday, Townsend called SCOTUS's ruling 'insane' as they voted in favour of US President Donald Trump's executive order. 'I just don't, I can't believe that we are asking the question, 'Is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution constitutional?' That is what, it is crazy. And I am sorry, but people need to call, 'This is crazy,'' she said. 'They are asking us… They're asking us not to believe our own eyes and our own ears. They're asking us to go against everything that we know to be true. This is insane.' The Supreme Court recently handed the Trump administration a major victory in its efforts to block lower courts from upending its executive orders. The justices ruled 6-3 in favour of the Trump administration; the ruling will allow lower courts to issue injunctions but only in limited situations.
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling causes MSNBC host to erupt on air
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend gave an unhinged reaction to the Supreme Court 's birthright citizenship decision handed down on Friday. Sanders is a Co-Host of MSNBC's The Weeknight, and a Former Chief Spokesperson for Vice President Harris. 'I just don't, I can't believe that we are asking the question, 'is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution constitutional?' That is what, it is crazy. And I am sorry, but people need to call, 'this is crazy,' Sanders Townsend stated on air. 'They are asking us… They're asking us not to believe our own eyes and our own ears. They're asking us to go against everything that we know to be true. This is insane,' Sanders Townsend added. Another one of her co-hosts, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, responded to Sanders Townsend noting that 'Trump and and his minions inside the government been very effective at setting to stair steps to the various narratives that they want to get accomplished.' The court ruled 6-3 Friday in favor of Trump to end the practice of stalling his Executive Orders and agenda. The ruling allows Trump's executive order halting birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants to take effect in states and jurisdictions that did not directly challenge his action in court. It could mean citizenship rules vary from state to state, pending ongoing litigation. While all six conservative justices - including the three he appointed - sided with the president, three people dissented the historic ruling. When the decision was made Friday, a fiery dispute broke out between two of America's most powerful judges. The justices' secret personal feuds have seemingly become so fraught that they are counting down the days until the SCOTUS summer recess - which will be a welcome respite from both work and colleagues, according to Chief Justice John Roberts. This week, the court's liberal wing erupted in spectacular fashion against the six-judge conservative alliance during the biggest ruling of the year thus far. Trump appointee Justice Amy Coney Barrett, 53, ripped into liberal dissenter Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's arguments in her 6-3 majority opinion in a major birthright citizenship case. Writing for the conservative majority of the court, Barrett hit back at both Jackson and fellow Justice Sonia Sotomayor who dissented. Barrett's scorched earth reply took aim at Jackson mostly, spending 900 words to repeatedly rip into the Biden appointee and the court's most junior member. Jackson went on to describe the decision as an 'existential threat to the rule of law.' Speaking at the White House after his victory, Trump said: 'This was a big one. Amazing decision, one we're very happy about. This really brings back the Constitution. This is what it's all about.' Basking in his victory during an impromptu appearance in the White House briefing room, the president vowed to push through 'many' more of his policies after the court win, including curbs to birthright citizenship. The president said he would 'promptly file' to advance policies that have previously been blocked by judges. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the ruling meant 'not one district court judge can think they're an emperor over this administration and his executive powers, and why the people of the United States elected him.'
Fox News
2 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
MSNBC host erupts over SCOTUS ruling on Trump's birthright citizenship order
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend unloaded on the Supreme Court's ruling on President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order, calling it "insane" during a discussion on Friday. "I just don't, I can't believe that we are asking the question, 'is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution constitutional?' That is what, it is crazy. And I am sorry, but people need to call, 'this is crazy.' They are asking us… They're asking us not to believe our own eyes and our own ears. They're asking us to go against everything that we know to be true. This is insane," Sanders Townsend said. The Supreme Court delivered a major victory in Trump's effort to block lower courts from issuing universal injunctions that had upended many of his administration's executive orders and actions on Friday. The Justices ruled 6-3 to allow the lower courts to issue injunctions only in limited instances, though the ruling leaves open the question of how the ruling will apply to the birthright citizenship order at the heart of the case. The Supreme Court agreed this year to take up a trio of consolidated cases involving so-called universal injunctions handed down by federal district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington state. Judges in those districts had blocked Trump's ban on birthright citizenship from taking force nationwide — which the Trump administration argued in their appeal to the Supreme Court was overly broad. "The applications do not raise – and thus we do not address – the question whether the Executive Order violates the Citizenship Clause or Nationality Act," Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, writing for the majority. "The issue before us is one of remedy: whether, under the Judiciary Act of 1789, federal courts have equitable authority to issue universal injunctions." MSNBC host Michael Steele responded, "this is the landscape we find ourselves on now." "I mean, the reality is that they have been very effective. Trump and his minions inside the government have been very effective at setting the stairsteps to the various narratives that they want to get accomplished," he said. Slate's Mark Joseph Stern also criticized the ruling, and insisted that no one could explain how Trump's order would work in practice. "When a child is born in America, the doctor doesn't demand the papers of their parents to ensure that they're a citizen or a green card holder. All they need is a birth certificate showing that they were born here. You, me, most people we know, we are citizens because of our birth. And once the government takes that away, once it introduces this wild, chaotic new system where it depends on your parents, and you get punished if your parents didn't have the right papers, then everyone's citizenship is thrown into disarray, and advocates need to present that very clearly to the Supreme Court because, frankly, this conservative majority is very selective in its empathy," Stern argued.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Symone Sanders Townsend: Democratic members of Congress should be taking more action
Symone Sanders Townsend of The Weeknight says Democratic members of Congress could be taking more action in fighting back against the Trump administration. "I think a lot of Democratic elected officials across the country are waiting to meet the moment because they know that they'll be able to rise to the occasion, but you have to want it," Sanders Townsend said.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘We're losing our young people': DNC Vice Chair David Hogg on his effort to primary Dems
David Hogg, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, joins Symone Sanders Townsend to discuss his newly announced plans through his organization "Leaders We Deserve" to primary some fellow Democrats. "We have to show our base how we are changing and how we are meeting in this moment to fight back because we're losing our young people, too," Hogg said.
