Birthright citizenship

Monday

Freddy Gray

Ann Coulter: On immigration, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein Files

Ann Coulter, an American author, lawyer and conservative media pundit, joined Freddy Gray on the Americano podcast last Friday to discuss why she backs the UK's Reform party, why she supports Trump in his second term, what's really going on with the Epstein files and more. Here are some highlights from their conversation. Why don’t politicians follow through on illegal immigration promises? Ann Coulter: Americans have been voting not to give illegals benefits, to deport them, to make sure they can't vote, for now almost half a century, and the politicians will never give it to us. That was what was so striking about Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. Oh my gosh, they really seemed to mean it.

Freddy Gray and Ann Coulter

Friday

Jacob Heilbrunn

Supreme Court allows Trump to recast America

Donald Trump is on a roll. Last week, he bombed Iran and imposed a ceasefire on Tehran and Jerusalem. Now the Supreme Court, in its final day of session, has handed him another victory by constraining the power of federal judges to constrain the executive branch. The verdict is clear: the Trump administration will have much more latitude to recast America.In essence, the Supreme Court is consolidating a conservative counter-revolution that began, as Sam Tanenhaus notes in his exemplary new biography of William F. Buckley, Jr., after World War II and is reaching full flower under Trump. Once upon a time, liberals enacted sweeping policies and programs through the courts. Now it is the right’s turn.

Supreme Court

Wednesday

Casey Chalk

There’s no such thing as a ‘global citizen’

Watchers of the news might be forgiven for thinking the Biden administration is worried about the election-year optics of more migrants at our southern border. The International Committee of the Red Cross is predicting high waves of migration through Mexico and Central America. The Department of Homeland Security last week requested help from the Pentagon. Also last week, the administration announced that asylum officers, rather than just immigration court judges, will be permitted to adjudicate the claims of immigrants seeking asylum at the border. In addition to these initiatives, I’d suggest another policy: do away with birthright citizenship and dual citizenship.