Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett triggered fierce backlash from MAGA loyalists after forcefully questioning the Trump administration’s top lawyer and voicing skepticism over ending birthright citizenship during a heated Supreme Court argument.

Since taking office, Donald Trump has pushed for an executive order to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional guarantee under the 14th Amendment that grants automatic U.S. citizenship to anyone born on American soil.

During oral arguments, Barrett confronted Solicitor General Dean John Sauer, who was representing the Trump administration, over his dismissive response to Justice Elena Kagan’s concerns. Barrett sharply asked whether Sauer truly believed there was “no way” for plaintiffs to quickly challenge the executive order, suggesting that class-action certification might expedite the process.

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        He’ll immediately declare martial law. This is bad, but that would be worse. Much worse…

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          Oh yeah let’s not protest in case we anger the totally rational dictator who certainly won’t declare martial law at the first sign he might lose power no matter the scenario. That would be terrible.

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        I wouldn’t… until after mid-terms. Because he’ll declare martial law until then.

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          …the sad fact is that fascists won a mostly-free-and-fair election, so i think many of us are sitting tight until midterms lest we give them ammunition to rationslise martial law; if midterm elections aren’t proprietous, though, that ammunition’s f*cking coming out…

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            armed protests

            That’s a huge difference. Please don’t use false strawman arguments. I haven’t heard “don’t protest or he’ll get mad”, here or anywhere.

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            More like don’t give them an excuse before the centrists wake up.

            Of course, they won’t ever wake up, that’s why they’re centrists.

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        It’s getting close to that. Someone’s going to be armed in one of those ICE videos eventually.