The Supreme Court, Islamophobia, and the Corporate Democrats Too Scared to Fight Back
Wajahat Ali and I break down the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, Musk's promotion of a banned film, and the Islamophobia already shaping Abdul El-Sayed's Senate race
This week’s Supreme Court ruling barely preserved birthright citizenship—a 5-4 decision on a right explicitly written into the 14th Amendment. Justice Alito used his dissent to call people like me “birth tourists,” a term with roots in white nationalist rhetoric, from a man who is himself the son of an Italian immigrant.
As a guest on THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali, we get into that ruling, and the vote to gut campaign finance protections—clearing the way for unlimited dark money in our elections, the Islamophobia already targeting Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign, and why corporate Democrats keep folding instead of fighting. We also cover Elon Musk pushing a film so violent Germany banned it, and Ken Paxton letting a child sex abuser walk free while jailing protesters for 100 years. Watch our live conversation.
Yesterday, I shared my pithy, no-legalese breakdown of exactly what happened at the Supreme Court this week and why it matters for our Democracy. You can find that here.
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That anyone would make a "birth tourist" statement is bad enough, but to be a Supreme Court judge and state it in his dissent, it's so aggravating.