Political analysts sounded the alarm on Sunday over the Supreme Court sending President Donald Trump a "galling" signal in its most recent spate of rulings.
In Trump v. Barbara, the case seeking to invalidate birthright citizenship, four justices signaled they were willing to let Trump rewrite the meaning of the 14th Amendment by executive order, even though the case was decided 6-3 on paper. The Constitution requires amendments to be passed through a state convention process, with two-thirds of the states needing to ratify any changes.
Trump has demanded that the Supreme Court rehear the case, which could make it only the second case the Court has revisited.
Analyst David Pakman and independent journalist Katie Phang reacted to the ruling on a new episode of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube.
"That, to me, seems like a massive red alert here," Pakman said about the ruling.
Phang noted that the case was part of a bigger trend from the "deeply flawed" Supreme Court.
"I'm going to go even farther back in the kind of process and history here and say, this birthright citizen never should have been taken up by the Supreme Court in the first instance, and their willingness to take up that type of case shows that there's something deeply, deeply flawed about this current iteration of the Supreme Court of the United States," Phang said. "The fact that you do have some justices that are like, 'Yeah, maybe we can flirt with this idea now of doing away with an amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship.' That is galling and yet not surprising, considering the kind of downward spiral we've seen coming from these decisions."
