MSNBC host erupts over SCOTUS ruling on Trump's birthright citizenship order

MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend unloaded on the Supreme Court's ruling on President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order calling it insane during a discussion on Friday I just don t I can t believe that we are asking the question is the th Amendment to the Constitution constitutional That is what it is crazy And I am sorry but people need to call this is crazy They are asking us They re asking us not to believe our own eyes and our own ears They re asking us to go against everything that we know to be true This is insane Sanders Townsend explained The Supreme Court delivered a major domination in Trump's effort to block lower courts from issuing universal injunctions that had upended a large number of of his administration's executive orders and actions on Friday The Justices ruled - to allow the lower courts to issue injunctions only in limited instances though the ruling leaves open the question of how the ruling will apply to the birthright citizenship order at the heart of the development UPENDING US BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP WOULD HAVE DRASTIC NEGATIVE IMPACT DEFENDERS WARNThe Supreme Court agreed this year to take up a trio of consolidated cases involving so-called universal injunctions handed down by federal district judges in Maryland Massachusetts and Washington state Judges in those districts had blocked Trump's ban on birthright citizenship from taking force nationwide which the Trump administration argued in their appeal to the Supreme Court was overly broad The applications do not raise and thus we do not address the question whether the Executive Order violates the Citizenship Clause or Nationality Act Justice Amy Coney Barrett explained writing for the majority The issue before us is one of remedy whether under the Judiciary Act of federal courts have equitable authority to issue universal injunctions CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREMSNBC host Michael Steele responded this is the landscape we find ourselves on now I mean the reality is that they have been very effective Trump and his minions inside the regime have been very effective at setting the stairsteps to the various narratives that they want to get accomplished he announced Slate's Mark Joseph Stern also criticized the ruling and insisted that no one could explain how Trump's order would work in practice When a child is born in America the physician doesn t demand the papers of their parents to ensure that they re a citizen or a green card holder All they need is a birth certificate showing that they were born here You me most of people we know we are citizens because of our birth And once the establishment takes that away once it introduces this wild chaotic new system where it depends on your parents and you get punished if your parents didn t have the right papers then everyone s citizenship is thrown into disarray and advocates need to present that very clearly to the Supreme Court because frankly this conservative majority is very selective in its empathy Stern argued