Raskin: Birthright Citizenship Executive Order a 'Loser' for Trump

Raskin: Birthright Citizenship Executive Order a ‘Loser’ for Trump


On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship was “a loser.”

Host Kasie Hunt said, “I want to start with what the Supreme Court discussed here today. They seemed open to limiting the ability of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions. Do you think there’s potential validity to that?”

Raskin said, “Not really. It would mean, for example in this case on birthright citizenship, that every family in America that might be affected or every person who might be affected would have to go themselves to court to sue. That’s enormously inefficient and really unmanageable. and it doesn’t make any sense. it would be like saying, if, you know, the schools were

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