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Supreme Court just opened the door for the government to grab guns: legal expert

Reacting to the Supreme Court's stunning birthright citizenship ruling that now opens the door to an avalanche of lawsuits because the conservative court failed to rule on the reach of the 14th Amendment, one MSNBC legal analyst said the court may have opened a can of worms.

Speaking with host Ana Cabrera, Danny Cevallos explained that a non-Donald Trump administration could apply Friday's ruling to test the limits of the 2nd Amendment.

Cevallos noted a dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a solid point about the majority's ruling written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

"Sotomayor makes a compelling point that it should factor in," he told the host. "This is a great example of something that the government is so likely to lose on. And one of the other things I thought she raised that I thought was important was think about this going the other way?"

"What if the next president, a Democrat president, for example, says, 'I hereby issue an executive order: we're collecting all the guns. We're collecting them all tomorrow, we're going house to house, and we interpret the Constitution. The Second Amendment is saying, well, we're only talking about militia. And that's, oh, I don't know, the National Guard. Therefore, your AR-15 is now going to be collected by our authorities.'"

"Imagine the same thing," he suggested. "Someone would immediately go to a district court to challenge that as unconstitutional and so now what does this mean that we now need to wait for as the attorney general or Solicitor General John Sauer said, for these cases to percolate up through the system?"

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'It's not a set-up': Trump defends reporter he 'loves' after softball question

President Donald Trump professed his admiration for a reporter during a White House press briefing Friday after being asked a question that validated both the president’s false claims of election interference in the 2020 election, and claims that the numerous felony charges he faced last year were politically motivated.

“Is there any more information on the special prosecutor?” the reporter asked, referring to Trump’s call for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate the 2020 election last week.

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'No, just listen!' Trump steamrolls CNN reporter defending Iran news report

Donald Trump steamrolled over Jeff Zeleny when the CNN reporter tried to push back over the president's claim of "fake news" on Iran.

During Friday's press conference on Trump's Supreme Court victories, Zeleny asked, "I'm wondering now, sir, if you believe that Iran has given up its long history of ambitions with nuclear weapons, or what you would like to see from them to prove that they do, and what type of meetings is your administration looking for next week with Iran?"

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Professor issues chilling prediction about Trump targeting 'every right' we have

University of Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade issued a stark warning on MSNBC Friday following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that delivered a victory to President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate birthright citizenship, implying that all constitutional rights may now be in danger.

“We are going to have people who are immigrants giving birth to children without knowing what their status is,” McQuade said on MSNBC Reports. “One of the things that is also so important about this opinion is it’s not going to end with birthright citizenship; as Justice (Sonia) Sotomayor writes in her dissent, this means every constitutional right is an issue.”

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'Tempers are high' on Supreme Court after 'jarring' exchange: legal expert

Reacting to reporting that Justice Sonia Sotomayor took 15 minutes to read a scathing dissent with the court's conservative majority's ruling on birthright citizenship, legal analyst Melissa Murray pointed to a change in courtroom demeanor.

"I understand that Justice Sotomayor, still reading her dissent from the bench," MSNBC host Ana Cabrera prompted her guest. "We also have a dissent from Justice [Ketanji Brown] Jackson who writes in her dissent the court's decision to permit the executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is 'an existential threat to the rule of law.'"

"Melissa, your thoughts on just the emotion that we are seeing triggered in this particular ruling?" she asked .

"Well, it seems very clear, Anna, that tempers are high on both sides, on both Justice Sotomayor and Justice Jackson dissenting; Justice Sotomayor choosing to read her dissent from the bench," Murray replied. "That's not something that always happens; they reserve that for the most forceful dissents in the cases that they think matter the most."

"But she is basically into a 15-minute read here, which is one of the longest public dissents that she has made. So she clearly thinks this is really important, and it is likely that we may see something from Justice Jackson as well," she continued. "And also the cross exchanges between the justices here show that tempers are short on this court. The clip that Julia earlier read from Justice Jackson, from Justice Barrett about Justice Jackson, it's a little short, a little jarring in its tone. It's not typically what you would expect from life tenured colleagues."

"But it seems clear that at least on this issue, there was a lot of disagreement on this court, a lot of disagreement about the impact of the court's decision here, and whether or not this would truly give rise to a failure of rule of law systems," she suggested. "Justice Barrett says that this is only about stopping an imperial judiciary. Justice Jackson saying, no, this is about stopping an imperial executive that is moving very quickly toward something that looks more like autocracy."

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Supreme Court releases ruling that opens the door to ban Bibles from school

In a case involving a Muslim family in Maryland, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the 6-3 majority that having LGBTQ books in schools places an additional burden on families that oppose LGBTQ people.

In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the court ruled that the "parents in this case are likely to succeed in their challenge to the school board's policies foreclosing the opt-out option," explained SCOTUS blog's Amy Howe.

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'Deathblow to the rule of law': Expert reacts to major Supreme Court ruling

A ruling from the 6-3 conservative majority Supreme Court that made a major ruling regarding President Donald Trump's attempts to limit birthright citizenship is a "deathblow to the rule of law," according to one noted legal scholar.

Appearing on MSNBC moments after the court avoided clarifying how the 14th Amendment should be applied, but instead limited the amount of people affected by court injunctions regarding it, NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray weighed in while speaking with host Ana Cabrera.

"This is all happening in an environment where the Trump administration is not only going after undocumented persons and deporting people without the benefit of due process, they're doing so while they are also upending the legal landscape by making it harder for pro bono outfits to secure the help they need from law firms to bring these suits," she noted.

"And now, with this decision, they're essentially saying that litigants will have to file in each particular jurisdiction around the United States in order to be clear that their resolution will have a legally binding effect," she added. "And that means you're just going to need a flood, an army of lawyers, at a time when that army of lawyers is not going to be forthcoming."

Friday's ruling stated injunctions issued challenging Trump's attempts to limit birthright citizenship — a Constitutional law that states anybody born in the U.S. is a citizen — would only affect individuals or groups involved in the legal action.

"So make no mistake about this," she warned. "The court has given this administration an enormous win. They have put one hand behind the backs of those who are trying to fight against this administration, and they have dealt a deathblow to the rule of law."
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'Big time': CNN host declares 'enormous' victory for Trump in Supreme Court case

CNN's Paula Reid couldn't emphasize enough what a huge win the U.S. Supreme Court birthright citizenship decision was for the Trump administration.

On Friday, the court ruled 6-3 that universal injunctions were improper and exceeded the power of the federal courts. This means the lower courts must now "fight out" citizenship issues.

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'To do with babies of slaves': Trump announces 'giant win' with history lesson

Donald Trump on Friday announced his big win at the Supreme Court in a birthright citizenship case.

"GIANT WIN in the United States Supreme Court! Even the Birthright Citizenship Hoax has been, indirectly, hit hard," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "It had to do with the babies of slaves (same year!), not the SCAMMING of our Immigration process."

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Supreme Court sets off 'alarm bells' that it's 'in the bag' for Trump: analyst

In a discussion about the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in the birthright citizenship case, legal analysts explained that the court's ruling should be setting off "alarm bells" about this court.

Speaking on MSNBC, host Ana Cabrera noted that there were numerous nationwide injunctions related to executive orders issued under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. She asked why now does the court decide to change these rules.

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'Appetite for demolishing heritage;’ Jared Kushner slammed for Trump hotel plan

Leaders of a European cultural heritage organization are hitting back against the real estate aspirations of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his aspirations to demolish a historic site in Serbia to make way for a Trump-branded hotel.

“(The structures) shouldn’t be removed just because a private investor showed up with a huge appetite for demolishing heritage in order to build an inappropriate hotel and apartment complex,” said Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, who heads the Europa Nostra Foundation, a Brussels-based European cultural heritage organization, Bloomberg reported.

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'Enabling our demise': Justice Jackson rips high court over citizenship decision

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the high court's conservative majority of hastening the "demise" of government institutions by handing President Donald Trump a huge victory in its decision on birthright citizenship.

In a 6-3 decision Friday, the court held that universal injunctions were improper and exceeded the power of the federal courts. In other words, lower courts must now "fight out" citizenship issues.

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