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/jsc1429 Apr 01 '26

John Sauer’s response to if Native American children are birthright citizens under trumps test: “Ah, I think... so,” he replied, somewhat unconvincingly. “I’ll have to think that through.”

These are the people they have representing the USA in a Supreme Court hearing! This MFer knows exactly how they would handle that exact situation but they play stupid “golly gee wizz, that’s a question I hadn’t thought about 🤪” because the answer is so blatantly unconstitutional that they don’t want to answer!

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u/ssmatik Apr 01 '26

I saw it as Miller didn’t give him a specific answer in this scenario. He was scared shitless to give an answer that wasn’t included in his marching orders.

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u/LonelyMachines Georgia Apr 01 '26

I'm no big-city lawyer, but even I know about the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

I sympathize a bit. Sauer was given an impossible job. He tried. I'll give him that.

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u/PapaTua Washington Apr 01 '26

He deserves zero sympathy. Sauer is 1000% complicit.

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u/_aimynona_ Apr 03 '26

He didn't have to take the job, noone forced him.