Hollowing out citizenship: Will the Supreme Court try to sanction Trump's most dangerous constitutional attack? [View all]

Woe be unto any attorney who appears unprepared or advances specious arguments in the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Jack Coughenour, the first federal judge in the Northwest nominated by Ronald Reagan.

Coughenour, now a senior judge, delivered a scathing rebuke to Donald Trump’s bid to hollow out the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The wannabe authoritarian-in-chief issued an executive order earlier this year revoking birthright citizenship from offspring born in the United States to new Americans.

In granting a restraining order against Trump’s unilateral action, the judge unloaded on Trump’s lackeys: “Frankly, I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It boggles the mind.”

Many people hold that opinion, including two other federal judges who ruled against Trump in separate suits.

But the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Justice Department appeal, underscoring a term consequential to and potentially destructive of American democracy.

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