David French: The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Should've Been 9-0
6/30/20261 hr 10 min
SCOTUS did manage, for now, to stop Trump from recreating the American republic, but four of the court's justices believe that the fundamental law of birthright citizenship in the Constitution can just be repealed—along with the very nature of what American citizenship means. But overall, while Trump had some big wins from the Supreme Court this term, he also had massive losses. David runs down some of the latest rulings with Tim. Plus: Mamdani doesn't think the Constitution should be changed so he can run for POTUS (David thinks he's wrong), Platner is not winning over white working-class voters, Dems need a bigger tent but there have to be lines the party won't cross, and the DOJ is (mostly) losing its immigration protest cases.
David French joins Tim Miller.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Speaker 20:10
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Speaker 10:11
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Tim Miller· Host0:14
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Speaker 10:15
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Speaker 20:24
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Speaker 10:26
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Speaker 40:29
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Tim Miller· Host0:45
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome back to the show opinion columnist for the failing New York Times. He's also co-host of legal podcast- [laughs] ... Advisory Opinion, Advisory Opinions. He was a JAG officer. There are a lot of opinions today, and so we've got him on the podcast. It's David French. How you doing?
David French· Guest1:16
Tim, it's great to see you. Uh, do we have anything to talk about today? Anything interesting?
Tim Miller· Host1:20
We have a few things. We have a few things. [laughs] Like, about two minutes before I got down, uh, we, I got a blaring headline in the Bulwark Slack, "Samuel Alito resigns," and I was preparing some Martha-Ann Alito jokes.