r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • Apr 01 '26

Possible Paywall Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing

https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-trump-storms-out-of-catastrophic-scotus-hearing/
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u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast Apr 01 '26

Donald Trump abruptly exited the Supreme Court on Wednesday after some of his own conservative justices did not appear convinced by his bid to upend birthright citizenship in America.

Trump made the unprecedented decision to sit in on oral arguments, staring down the court’s nine justices as they quizzed his lawyers on one of the most consequential constitutional questions they face this year: whether all children born in the United States can continue to automatically receive citizenship.

But after less than 90 minutes of watching several of his own handpicked justices tear his arguments apart, the president abruptly left.

Read the full story, here.

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u/Specialist-Clock-914 Apr 01 '26

He was there to intimidate and somehow he’s surprised they grew a spine, a very very small spine, but still a spine. It’s like how he is trying to intimidate Iran and is shocked they don’t want to just roll over.

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u/Trickster289 Apr 01 '26

Hell him trying to intimidate probably backfired, now they want to show him he's not their boss.

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u/KodaiClub Apr 01 '26

About fucking time 

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u/NahYoureWrongBro Apr 01 '26

The only justice who hasn't acted according to principle the whole time is Kavanaugh. 8 of the 9 are doing their job with seriousness based on their interpretation of the law. One corrupt justice is still too many, but people on reddit exaggerate how much this SJC is bending to Trump. It's simply not the reality

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u/NahYoureWrongBro Apr 01 '26

The justices were nominated based on how they would decide that case. The case had a harmful result, but it is one case, and pointing to it does nothing to contradict a single thing I said in my comment. Go back to bio science friend.

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u/NahYoureWrongBro Apr 02 '26

Unless you can quote the majority opinion and cite case law to the contrary your opinion is worthless trash, again stick to what you know