Trump's birthright citizenship nonsense reminds me of a time in court a crazy sovereign citizen defendant claimed the US lacked jurisdiction & when the judge told the AUSA to cite to authority in response, he said in exasperation "I dunno your Honor, the US Constitution I guess."
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Except this time instead of a pro se defendant reading some deranged theory he found on the internet, it's the president of the United States so I guess we're supposed to pretend to take it seriously.
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I knew a guy who refused to obey federal court orders on the grounds that MARBURY was wrongly decided.
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If only
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Yes maybe he could figure out what the subject matter jurisdiction issue has to do with possessing a machine gun in a national forest.
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