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The Guardian
19 hours ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Los Angeles, city of protest: why it's no surprise LA rose up against Trump
Los Angeles is home to nearly a million undocumented immigrants, the largest number of any place in the US. For decades, the city has been a catalyst in the US immigrants' rights movement. So when federal agents began conducting raids at workplaces across Los Angeles last week, activists say it's not surprising that the city rose up in protest. 'We're seeing it as a struggle to preserve what's left of American democracy,' Chris Zepeda-Millán, a public policy expert at the University of California Los Angeles, told the Guardian on Monday en route to a protest. Trump's decision to send military troops into a majority-Democratic city has been criticized as a deliberate provocation, perhaps one designed to undermine his political rival, California governor Gavin Newsom, and distract from Trump's current legislative and personal struggles. But Trump has also decided to stage his immigration battle in a city with one of the most well-developed networks of pro-immigration organizations and pro-immigrant labor unions in the United States. 'They're fighting what they perceive as fascism and militarism taking over their city and their state,' Zepeda-Millán said. 'They're well aware that other activists in other cities are watching.' Angelenos have been organizing against government attempts to criminalize undocumented workers since the 1990s, and against US government racism towards Mexican Americans for at least a century. Some of LA's immigrants' rights protests have been huge: at least half a million people are estimated to have attended demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles in 2006, when the Republican party tried to pass a national bill that would have made simply being an undocumented immigrant in the US into a felony. For the most part, the people protesting in the streets today are not themselves immigrants, or undocumented, Zepeda-Millán said. It's the children and grandchildren of immigrants, people who are themselves US citizens, who are taking up the fight. 'They know very well how much their parents and grandparents contributed to this state, this country, this economy,' he said. Local Black Lives Matter leaders have encouraged all Angelenos to join the protests in solidarity. 'This is our business. Any time there's a Gestapo covering up their faces, masking their faces, snatching people off of street corners, none of us are safe,' Melina Abdullah, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter LA, said in a social media video on Friday. Abdullah, who said she was teargassed at a demonstration on Friday, told the Guardian that the law enforcement response to the immigration raid protests had been different, with officers 'throwing aside any rules of engagement'. 'They're treating us as if we're enemy combatants,' she said. 'I've never seen it like this.' As the White House has set new, record-breaking quotas for the daily number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) arrests, activists say, many different federal agencies are now being asked to contribute to Trump's deportation agenda. 'We're not just dealing with Ice. We're dealing with FBI Swat teams, drug enforcement, US marshals,' said Victor Narro, a longtime immigration and labor activist in Los Angeles. In southern California, communities are now seeing 'paramilitary use of FBI agents, armed vehicles patrolling the streets, doing these very flashy and public types of raids and operations', said Luis Nolasco, a senior policy advocate and organizer at the ACLU of Southern California. In January, border patrol agents conducted raids targeting undocumented workers six hours north of the US-Mexico border. 'The amount of border patrol presence in our region is very concerning,' Nolasco said, because border patrol, even more than Ice 'has a horrendous track record of abusing people's rights'. Today, nearly half of Los Angeles county's 10 million residents are Latino, 16% are Asian, and a third of all residents were born outside the United States. White people have been a minority in Los Angeles county since at least 1990, according to the Los Angeles Times: California became a 'minority-majority' state in 2000. Los Angeles county has so many residents who are undocumented that it contains nearly 9% of the US's total population of undocumented people, according to estimates from the Migration Policy Institute. In 2023, there were a total of 13.7 million 'unauthorized immigrants' living in the US, the nonpartisan thinktank estimated. Scholars and activists said that Trump simply does not have the federal resources to deport people from the US at the scale or the pace that his administration has promised. In May, the administration demanded that federal agents arrest and deport 3,000 people a day, or a million each year. (Not all people who are arrested can be deported right away.) During Trump's first 100 days in office, Ice said it arrested an average of only 660 people a day. At that rate, Zepeda-Millán said, it would take federal agents 50 years to deport the more than 12m undocumented people estimated to be living in the United States. But Trump can effectively use federal agents to terrorize undocumented people and their families, activists said, something his Los Angeles raids have accomplished. One daughter of a man arrested in the raids described her father being 'kidnapped' by agents, taken away in handcuffs and ankle chains, and detained for days without any contact with his family. Others described shock at raids targeting workplaces, and the detention of hard-working, church-going family members, some of whom have lived in LA for decades. Los Angeles news outlets have reported that streets in some immigrant neighborhoods of the city have been eerily empty, and businesses reporting a sudden drop in customers, as the threat of arrest and deportation has frightened many people into staying at home. While many news outlets are currently focusing on 'protesters or things being thrown at police', immigrant communities are feeling a 'hurt' that 'is not usually portrayed in the press,' Camarillo said. Given 'the devastation that's occurring in the places where they are raiding and taking mothers and fathers and aunts and uncles and sisters and brothers,' he said, it's no surprise that there have been protests. LA's demographics, combined with the city's history of prominent 'riots', from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 protests over the police beating of Rodney King, make Los Angeles a 'strategic' place for Trump to draw out protesters that he can label 'insurrectionists,' said Albert Camarillo, an emeritus professor of history at Stanford University. 'This is a TV personality that knows how to stage a spectacle,' Camarillo said. Part of the apparent strategy behind Trump's showdown in Los Angeles, some activists said, isn't even about immigrants themselves. It's about creating chaos and undermining California's economy in order to hurt Democratic governor Gavin Newsom's likely presidential run in 2028. 'I think the Republican party sees Gavin Newsom as a threat,' Zepeda-Millán said. But activists caution that previous Republicans attempts to crack down on California's undocumented immigrants to further their political goals have backfired – sometimes spectacularly. One of the main reasons that California is now a Democratic supermajority state is because the Republican party backed a punitive anti-immigrant ballot measure, Prop 187, in 1994. Thirty years later, the state's majority-minority voters still do not appear to have forgiven them. California is often labeled a 'deep-blue state' but it's also been a deeply reactionary one. The region's PR machine may focus on the sunny beaches and Hollywood glamor, but LA's reality includes intense racial segregation and systemic deprivation. Los Angeles's law enforcement agencies are notorious for their history of racism and violence, and the city has the largest jail system in the United States. Those conditions have sparked repeated uprisings by the city's Black residents: in 1965, 1992, and again with the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. But this Black civil rights history is intertwined with a lesser-known history of similar Latino civil rights battles in Los Angeles, often led by Mexican Americans. Though California, like much of the south-west, was part of Mexico until 1848, Mexican Americans have faced widespread discrimination, including been targeted with lynchings and white mob violence. When Camarillo, the Stanford historian, was growing up in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s, he said, Mexican Americans were still dealing with 'overt racial segregation' in housing, education, and even movie theaters. Very few of the city's more than half-million Latino residents were welcomed into institutes of higher education: When Camarillo entered UCLA in 1966, he said, he was one of fewer than 50 Mexican Americans in a total student body of 27,000. In the 1960s and 70s, as African Americans were forming the Black Power movement, Mexican Americans formed the Chicano movement, embracing similar ideals of cultural empowerment, equal rights, and self-determination. Both movements had their militant wings: the Brown Berets, founded in Los Angeles, were the Chicano answer to the Black Panthers. Camarillo remembers being 'riveted' in 1968 as he watched East Los Angeles high school students stage massive walkouts to protest against their underfunded public schools and lack of opportunities. It was 'the first time high school students had ever walked out', said Camarillo, who went on to become the first Mexican American to earn a PhD in Chicano history. In the 80s and 90s, a massive new wave of immigrants came to Los Angeles, many of them fleeing from civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador in which the United States' cold war policies had played a major role. With the state's changing demographics came a backlash from California's white residents, Camarillo said. California voters approved several ballot measures in the 1990s targeting undocumented immigrants and banning affirmative action policies at public universities. In 1994, Los Angeles high-school students again staged walkouts to protest Proposition 187, a ballot initiative designed to block undocumented immigrants and their children from receiving public services, and require public employees, including teachers and doctors, to report suspected undocumented people to the authorities. While the measure, which was eventually found to be unconstitutional, passed, it radicalized a new generation of activists, and resulted in more Latino leaders running for office and taking leadership roles in labor unions, activists said. Today, much of LA's political establishment, including Karen Bass, the mayor, is made up of politicians who got their start as pro-immigrant activists in the 1990s. In 1994, during the battles over Prop 187 and California's punitive 'three strikes' law, Bass was a community organizer working with Latino teens to protest against the legislation. The Trump administration's raids in Los Angeles appear to be mobilizing a new generation of activists. Already, organizers are seeing changes in responses on the ground. In the past, Zepeda-Millán said, immigration enforcement raids and deportations have been 'notoriously hard to organize around', in part because activists often don't find out about them until after they've happened. At most, he said, one or two activists might arrive to try to assist the person being deported. 'Now what you're seeing is hundreds of people showing up,' he said. 'You're not just seeing regular activists, you're seeing community members come out of their houses to confront Ice and the police, saying they don't want them there.' That new community response to deportations is in part a result of Latino activists' involvement in the George Floyd protests of 2020, Zepeda-Millán said, in which protesters saw police violence and repression firsthand. 'The generation that you see out there, showing up by the tens and hundreds now, to confront raids, this is the generation of youth that were politically baptized during the Black Lives Matter movement,' he said. This past week's protests, with thousands of demonstrators, are not even close to the largest immigration demonstrations in LA's history. In 2006, as millions of people protested in hundreds of cities nationwide against congressional Republicans' attempt to turn all undocumented immigrants into felons, the largest protests were in Los Angeles. Narro, who organized a large May Day demonstration in 2006, said participants, even small children, dressed in white to symbolize their commitment to non-violence. 'When you see the aerial pictures, it's like a white blanket covering Los Angeles,' Narro said. Los Angeles' immigrant communities have not participated in a demonstration at that scale in the past 20 years, but Narro said that Trump, who 'seems to be doing something every day to harm immigrants', may finally change that. 'My hope is, if [Trump] continues, it will hit that moment of groundswell, that immigrant families will just get fed up, and overcome their fear, and take to the streets in massive numbers,' Narro said.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Who is rioting in downtown L.A., demonstrators or habitual agitators?
As a fifth day of anti-ICE protests continue into the typically volatile evening hours, a state of emergency and a curfew in a portion of downtown Los Angeles now in place, many across Southern California and the nation are asking who is inciting the violence, committing the vandalism and doing the looting? Is it demonstrators or habitual agitators? In a Tuesday evening press conference, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass announced the curfew in a single square mile area downtown between the 110, 10 and 5 freeways, including Skid Row, Chinatown, Little Tokyo and the Fashion District. The curfew, which begins this evening at 8 p.m. and goes until 6 a.m., is expected to remain in place for at least several days. 'Last night, there were 23 businesses that were looted,' the mayor said. 'I think that if you drive through downtown L.A., the graffiti is everywhere and has caused significant damages to businesses and a number of properties.' Bass warned anyone attempting to remain in the curfew zone after 8 p.m., with limited exceptions, will be subject to arrest. On Monday, Bass expressed her deep frustration with those choosing to engage in illegal behavior, using the cover of immigrants' rights as a reason to cause mayhem. 'I just say to anybody that does that, don't come and say you are supporting immigrants' rights. You can't possibly be supporting immigrants and vandalize our city,' she said. 'You will be arrested. It might not happen that day, so don't think that because you went home that night that you're free. There's a lot of videotape, investigations that will take place and you will be held accountable and, frankly, need to be separated from the people who are fighting on behalf of our immigrant community.' On Sunday, L.A. Police Chief Jim McDonnell highlighted the level of violence police have battled, from a Molotov cocktail that hit an officer to two motorcyclists reportedly ramming skirmish lines to cinderblocks smashed into rocks, passed around and lobbed at police and commercial grade fireworks launched at the force. 'That can kill you,' McDonnell emphasized. The night of June 9 also devolved into a stretch of five Waymo driverless taxis on North Los Angeles Street near Arcadia Street tagged with graffiti and lit on fire, sending flames and clouds of toxic black smoke into the air. 3 killed in crash involving motorcyclist fleeing Southern California police 'These are people who are all hooded up, they've got a face mask on. They're the people who do this all the time, get away with whatever they can [and] go from one civil unrest situation to another using similar tactics,' the chief said. 'Some would call them anarchists, but they're people we run across routinely, city to city; it's what they do. Even more disgusting [is] that many people doing this come in from other places just to hurt people and to cause havoc.' As of late afternoon Tuesday, police said that nearly 200 people had been arrested on various charges. Just before 9 p.m., LAPD's Central Division said in a post to X that 'mass arrests are being initiated' for curfew violations. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
a day ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Los Angeles ICE protests head into fifth night after Newsom sues to halt Marines, National Guard deployment
It's been five days since anti-ICE demonstrations erupted in Los Angeles, some turning violent between protesters and law enforcement officers, prompting President Trump to deploy National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines. The violent clashes have left an aftermath of destruction, including graffiti, looting, vandalism and debris. The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested over 100 people over the past few days, including 96 on Monday night. Mayor Karen Bass provided an update on the protests during a news conference on Tuesday. She told reporters that thorough investigations will be conducted to identify people who are involved in committing damage or vandalism. She warned people that they would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. She said that the protests should be focused on advocating for immigrants' rights and not on committing crimes. "I don't not believe that individuals that commit vandalism and violence in our city really are in support of immigrants; they have another agenda," Bass said. The protests began Friday night after several immigration raids took place in the Westlake District, downtown and South LA. SkyCal flew over the locations where crowds quickly formed, and protesters attempted to prevent federal agents from placing individuals into vans. The protests that took place over the weekend were declared unlawful assemblies and people were ordered to disperse and clear the area. Over several days, law enforcement and troops have been dressed in riot gear and have been seen firing less-than-lethal, tear gas and flash bangs into crowds to try and disperse people. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X that people who "lay a hand" on law enforcement officers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. National Guard and military in Los Angeles As of Tuesday morning, about 700 active-duty Marines began arriving in the LA area, a defense official said, to join the thousands of National Guard troops already deployed to respond to the protests. Acting Defense Department comptroller Bryn MacDonnell testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and said the deployment of the National Guard will cost about $134 million. On Tuesday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta asked a federal judge to provide a temporary restraining order to stop Mr. Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the U.S. Department of Defense from using the military and the National Guard to patrol the region and protect federal officers and facilities. The day before Bonta filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing the orders are unlawful and exceed the federal government's authority under the Tenth Amendment. "President Trump's order calling federalized National Guard troops into Los Angeles — over the objections of the Governor and local law enforcement — is unnecessary and counterproductive. It's also deeply unfair to the members of the National Guard who are hard at work every day protecting our state, preparing for and responding to emergencies, and training so that, if called, they can fight our nation's wars," Bonta said. Bass blamed the unrest in LA on the federal government's involvement, saying that before immigration enforcement actions last week, the city was "peaceful." Protests take place across California Demonstrations have also taken place in cities across California in response to the events in Los Angeles. On Monday, over 100 people gathered in Santa Ana outside the complex of federal buildings in the downtown area. Law enforcement officials used crowd dispersal methods like smoke-filled canisters and pepper balls. SkyCal flew over the scene where cans of tear gas were seen being launched by federal agents at protesters who moved closer to the building. "When a peaceful demonstration escalates into rocks, bottles, mortars, and fireworks being used against public service personnel, and property is destroyed, it is no longer a lawful assembly. It is a violation of the law," said a statement from Santa Ana Police Chief Robert Rodriguez. "We will not stand by while our City is put at risk. Santa Ana Police officers, along with our mutual aid partners, are actively working to restore order. We urge everyone to go home." Tensions grew in San Francisco Monday night when police said two small groups of individuals committed vandalism and other criminal acts. Police said multiple people were arrested and detained after refusing to comply.
CNN
2 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
ACLU official on Trump's claim he had to send troops to L.A.: ‘That's just absolutely false'
Eva Bitran, Director of Immigrants' Rights for ACLU of Southern California, talks with CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the ongoing protests in Los Angeles and lays out how the ACLU will respond to President Trump's deployment of the National Guard.
The Independent
15-05-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
The Latest: Supreme Court hears arguments in case over Trump's birthright citizenship order
The Supreme Court is hearing its first set of Trump-related arguments in the second Trump presidency. The case stems from the executive order President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office that would deny citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily. The executive order marks a major change to the provision of the 14th Amendment that grants citizenship to people born in the United States, with just a couple of exceptions. Immigrants, rights groups and states sued almost immediately to challenge the executive order. Federal judges have uniformly cast doubt on Trump's reading of the Citizenship Clause. Three judges have blocked the order from taking effect anywhere in the U.S., including U.S. District Judge John Coughenour. 'I've been on the bench for over four decades. I can't remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,' Coughenour said at a hearing in his Seattle courtroom. The Supreme Court is taking up emergency appeals filed by the Trump administration asking to be able to enforce the executive order in most of the country, at least while lawsuits over the order proceed. The constitutionality of the order is not before the court just yet. Instead, the justices are looking at potentially limiting the authority of individual judges to issue rulings that apply throughout the United States. These are known as nationwide, or universal, injunctions. Court is adjourned After a short rebuttal from Sauer, arguments are now complete after more than two hours. The Supreme Court typically rules in all its argued cases by the end of June and this one shouldn't be any different. After oral arguments today, it's not out of the question that the court could make a decision on this quickly, but we can't know for sure. The attorney representing private individuals and immigrants makes their case After the states finished their case, Kelsi Corkran, the attorney for pregnant women and immigrant-rights groups fighting Trump's executive order, used her 15 minutes to make her case. Corkran said every judge who has considered the issue has found Trump's order is 'blatantly unlawful' and asked the justices to block the effort to begin enforcing it. Kavanaugh suggested that people who want to challenge the birthright citizenship order might not need nationwide injunctions. Instead, they could bind together and file class-action lawsuits. 'That seems to solve the issue for preliminary relief,' he said. Corkran pushes back. 'That is not actually addressing the court's emergency docket. It's just now we're slapping a label of class certification on it,' she said. A series of questions from Alito at one point seemed to hint at the many other cases the Trump administration is now appealing to the Supreme Court on an emergency basis. Lower-court judges can be 'vulnerable to an occupational disease,' of believing they can do whatever they want, he said. Even if their decisions are wrong, he said, appeals courts can be reluctant to act quickly to block them. He seemed to suggest that includes his own colleagues on the Supreme Court. 'How do we deal with that practical problem?' he said. Corkran argues it wouldn't. The government hasn't said how they would enforce the order against everyone except the handful of people who sued, much less how they would filter out parents who are part of the groups that have sued, she argued. Even if there were a way, it would likely mean the government would be able to identify the women as non-citizens. That would put many at risk for potential deportation, she said. Trump's Solicitor General wraps up his opening and his challenger steps up Justice Kavanaugh pressed Sauer with a series of questions about exactly how the federal government might enforce Trump's order. 'What do hospitals do with a newborn? What do states do with a newborn?' he said. Sauer said they wouldn't necessarily do anything different, but the government might figure out ways to reject documentation with 'the wrong designation of citizenship.' Kavanaugh continued to press for clearer answers, pointing out that the executive order only gave the government about 30 days to develop a policy. 'You think they can get it together in time?' he said. Justice Brown Jackson appeared deeply skeptical of Sauer's argument. 'Your argument seems to turn our justice system, in my view at least, into a catch me if you can kind of regime … where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people's rights,' she said to Sauer. New Jersey Solicitor General Jeremy Feigenbaum stepped up to make his case after justices peppered Sauer with questions. He is arguing on behalf of the states that say they'll lose millions of dollars in benefits available to U.S. children and also have to overhaul identification systems. Feigenbaum asserted in his opening that the 'post-Civil War nation wrote into our Constitution that citizens of the United States and of the States would be one and the same without variation across state lines.' Feigenbaum told the justices that judges should be able to issue orders that affect the whole country, but only in narrow circumstances. Roberts jumps on that last point, asking him to elaborate on why they should only be used sparingly — a question that could be a clue as to how the chief justice is thinking about the issue. Justices try to pin down Solicitor Sauer's argument Justice Kagan cut to the heart of the case by asking Sauer that, if the court concludes Trump's order is illegal, how the nation's highest court could strike down the measure under the administration's theory of courts' limited power. 'Does every single person who is affected by this EO have to bring their own suit?' Kagan asked. 'How long does it take?' Sauer tried to answer, but several of Kagan's colleagues, along with the justice, jumped in to say they didn't hear a clear way the court could swiftly ensure the government could not take unconstitutional action. Roberts tried to help by jumping in to note the high court has moved fast in the past, concluding the TikTok case in one month. 'General Sauer, are you really going to answer Kagan by saying there is no way to do this expeditiously?' Coney Barrett asks Sauer. She pressed Sauer to say whether a class-action lawsuit could be another way for judges to issue a court order that could affect more people. He said the administration would likely push back on efforts of people to bind together for a class-action lawsuit, but that it would be another way for cases to move forward. Justice Alito pointed out that multiple states have also sued over the birthright citizenship order and won broader victories. The Trump administration is also arguing that states shouldn't have been able to do that, but Sauer sticks to his point about the nationwide injunctions, saying they yield 'all these sort of pathologies.' Sotomayor returned how Trump's order could affect people, saying it for some babies it could 'render them stateless.' Justices pepper Trump's Solicitor General with questions in oral arguments Arguing first is D. John Sauer, the solicitor general and the government's top attorney before the Supreme Court. Sauer also served as a personal lawyer for Trump as he fought election interference charges filed in 2023. Before that, Sauer served as Missouri's solicitor general and a clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Sauer began by taking aim at decisions from lower courts that apply nationwide. He argued that they go beyond the courts' authority and allow people who want to file lawsuits to go 'judge shopping' for those they expect to agree. The decisions are often rushed, he said. 'This is a bipartisan problem that has now spanned the last five presidential administration,' he said. Nationwide injunctions have become especially frustrating for the Trump administration, as opponents of the president's policies file hundreds of lawsuits challenging his flurry of executive orders. After a series of questions from Justices Brown Jackson and Coney Barrett about the possible implications of nationwide court orders more generally, Justice Gorsuch raised another question about birthright citizenship in particular: 'What do you say to the suggestion in this case those patchwork problems for the government as well as for the plaintiffs justify broader relief?' Sauer responded that it is a problem for the executive branch to deal with. The court issued an opinion unrelated to birthright citizenship The Supreme Court has revived a civil rights lawsuit against a Texas police officer who fatally shot a man during a traffic stop over unpaid tolls. The justices Thursday ordered the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to take a new look at the case of Ashtian Barnes, who died in his rental car in 2016 on the shoulder of the Sam Houston Tollway. Barnes was shot by Officer Roberto Felix Jr., who jumped on the sill of the driver's door of Barnes' car as it began to pull away from the stop. Felix's lawyers say he fired twice in two seconds because he 'reasonably feared for his life.' Trump presses for restrictions ahead of arguments President Donald Trump is weighing in ahead of arguments in the birthright citizenship case today. Trump says in an online post that granting citizenship to people born here, long seen as a constitutional promise, makes the country look 'STUPID' and like 'SUCKERS.' He incorrectly asserted the U.S. is the only country in the world with birthright citizenship. While not every country grants it, about 30 other countries do, including Canada. His executive order at the heart of today's case aims to end birthright citizenship for children born to people in the U.S. illegally, something many legal scholars say would require amending the Constitution. Three lawyers will present arguments to the court Solicitor General D. John Sauer is representing the Trump administration in urging the court to allow Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship to take effect in at least 27 states. New Jersey Solicitor General Jeremy Feigenbaum is arguing on behalf of the states that say they'll lose millions of dollars in health and other benefits available to U.S. children and also have to overhaul identification systems since birth certificates will no longer serve as proof of citizenship. Kelsi Corkran is representing pregnant women and immigrant rights groups that say chaos will result if Trump's order takes effect anywhere. The justices will take the bench at 10 o'clock Eastern time, but the livestream won't begin immediately. The court will issue at least one opinion before hearing arguments, so it could be 10 minutes before the Chief Justice John Roberts invites Sauer to begin. The livestream will be available on the court's website, or C-SPAN. C-SPAN asked Roberts to allow cameras to carry the case live, but he did not respond to the request, C-SPAN said. The Supreme Court has never allowed cameras in the courtroom. A decision should come relatively soon. The Supreme Court typically rules in all its argued cases by the end of June and this one shouldn't be any different. If anything, an order from the court might come quickly because the legal issue before the justices is not whether Trump's birthright citizenship restrictions are constitutional, but whether to grant the administration's emergency appeals to narrow lower court orders against it while lawsuits proceed.
