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Trump DOJ FALLS APART as Supreme Court CRUSHES Trump | It's Complicated

2026-04-03 Entertainment
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This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the legality of President Trump’s 2025 executive order, which aims to eliminate birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants or temporary residents. Georgetown Law Professor Steve Vladeck joins Asha and Renato to review what happened in court and to break down how the justices reacted to the Trump administration’s “very quirky” arguments on reversing a century-long understanding of citizenship. Then, Renato and Asha discuss how the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has become MIA. They explain why the OIG is so important to oversight of the DOJ and its exercise of governmental power. Listen up! Supreme Court Oral Argument Audio in Trump v. Barbara: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2025/25-365 Government Accountability Project Letter Re: Collapse of Internal Investigations Function at Department of Justice: https://whistleblower.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026.3.30-Letter-to-Congress-re-Failure-of-DOJ-Oversight.pdf Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920

Top Comments (10)

@BEVERLYMADDOX-i6p 2026-04-03

Anyone in America who had taken 7th grade level civics knows this case never should have made it to a trial. It should have been dismissed with prejudice from the jump. That is how insane this challenge is. What they really are trying to do is make USA a White Nation. That will never happen.

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@russellburress6240 2026-04-03

Yeah it's kind of hard to argue about Chinese billionaires coming here for citizenship because of Birthright at the same time you got Trump in the Oval Office advertising 5 million gold citizenship cards

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@kathyaschenbach8081 2026-04-03

I think they took the case to show him what their thinking was. He needed to hear that. Especially the fact that he had the audacity to sit there in person

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@DSmith264 2026-04-03

Complicated?? Or just CRIMINALLY CONVOLUTED?

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@fungibleunit4477 2026-04-03

The government's position leads to everyone being deported in the US. For example, start with the immigrants who arrived on the Mayflower. Posthumously remove their citizenship, then you can remove the citizenship of all their descendants. Would be fun to see that tested out on the "heritage" types as a test case. :)

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@eligewood9772 2026-04-03

No one know what ruling will be handed down by the Supreme Court! They flip-flop as much as Linda Graham ! Like a fish out of water, then we have to live by their rulings !

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@beedonn9260 2026-04-03

Thanks guys that discussion was a lot of fun to watch

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@peterlivingston8155 2026-04-03

Asha, this administration does things daily that sickened me and many others, you are not alone. You two keep doing what you're doing.

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@NyarPolo-q9x 2026-04-03

Listening to this team is refreshingly educational

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@Doomed_Lady 2026-04-03

Asha has such a killer background. I love seeing badass ladies who seem to have it all going on❤ Thanks for another informative and entertaining video

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