Trish Regan reports President Trump terminates trade talks with Canada over digital taxes while securing a Supreme Court victory against single-judge nationwide injunctions. This ruling empowers the administration to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, cut sanctuary funding, and halt refugee resettlement, effectively neutralizing challenges from state attorneys general like Letitia James. As Democrats including AOC express fury, the decision signals a decisive shift in executive power regarding immigration and judicial oversight. [Automatically generated summary]
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I figured I'd better actually come on live before any more breaking news happened.
Wow, what a day we have.
Good to have you guys all here.
This is Trish Regan Show.
I am Trish.
And the president just coming out moments ago and saying that the U.S. is terminating all discussions on trade with Canada, effective immediately.
This is in response to Ottawa imposing a digital services tax on U.S. tech firms.
And he had no use for that one.
He said, You know what?
When you're ready to play ball, we're here ready to play ball.
But in the meantime, we're not playing these games.
You're not going to have these little tariffs and taxes.
On our companies, you know, what's fair is fair, right?
Welcome to the show.
What a day, ladies and gentlemen!
You have a very, very upset Letitia James, a very, very upset AOC, and upset Kathy Holkle as well, right?
They're all freaking out, why?
Because Donald Trump was just handed a major win by none other than the Supreme Court on something that's important to these guys, and that's birthright citizenship, right?
Because if you come here, even illegally, and you have a child.
You can then have that child become a United States citizen.
And so the Trump administration has taken issue with this, basically saying it's encouraging bad behavior.
And what do you know?
The Supreme Court came forward with this really, really, really big announcement that basically puts, oh, Leticia James out of business.
And you know why she's out of business?
Because she's made a career out of going after Donald Trump.
And now she's not actually going to be able to do that anymore because all the federal court judges, you know, those district Georgia judges all over the country that were, were, Trying to effectively decide the fate of the rest of the nation, one single judge.
And we kept saying, you know, this isn't right.
These judges aren't elected.
Why are they deciding the fate of the rest of the country?
Well, the Supreme Court just came out and said, you know what?
That can't happen anymore.
No, no, no.
You're not going to have a single judge making the decision for the rest of the nation.
So this is a momentous, momentous bit of news.
It limits the judges' powers, which gets us to the birthright citizenship.
But I'm telling you guys, huge, massive win.
I want to go to the decision right now.
You see this coming out this morning, the Supreme Court of the United States deciding that, you know what, these single judges cannot actually have these nationwide injunctions preventing the executive orders from the President of the United States of America from taking effect.
One of those big executive orders happens to be birthright citizenship.
So this is a major deal.
And it does put Letitia James out of business.
It does put all of these AGs everywhere that are just trying to fight him at every turn, as well as the district.
Court judges and the single federal judges that want to get in the way of any of the executive orders coming from the presidential office, they're not going to have the sway they did, the power they did.
And Donald Trump was pretty happy about it.
I want you to listen.
Thanks for this decision.
And thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis.
And some of the cases we're talking about would be.
Ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore.
That was meant for the babies of slaves.
It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation.
This was, in fact, it was the same date, the exact same date, the end of the Civil War.
It was meant for the babies of slaves, and it's so clean and so obvious.
But this lets us go there and finally win that case because hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship, and it wasn't meant for that reason.
Was meant for the babies of slaves.
So, thanks to this decision, we can now properly file to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries, and numerous other priorities of the American people.
Wow, okay.
This is a big, big deal, you guys.
A huge ruling putting a lot of power back in the hands of the President of the United States.
You heard him refer, of course, to birthright citizenship.
You know, this is important.
It came about the 14th Amendment, that is, as a result of the Dred Scott case.
And, you know, you can go back to what, fifth grade social studies, back when they used to actually teach this stuff.
I don't know as they do anymore.
I don't know as they do.
But anyway, basically what it did was it ensured that anybody who had been formally enslaved.
They had American citizenship, their children had American citizenship.
And the clause reads, and I'm going to quote all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subjects to jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
And so that one sentence, right, that is what has become the foundation for the so called birthright citizenship.
But a lot of people said, you know what, what they were talking about back then was actually very specific.
When you're talking about jurisdiction thereof, the core argument.
By those in the Trump legal team, would be that, you know what?
When you were talking about this in 1868, you weren't talking about people who were coming here to, say, have an anchor baby tourist, right?
I mean, hey, 60 Minutes was doing this story years ago, like decades ago, about people from China coming over and, you know, they had the wealth to be able to come over here.
And that way they could get a dual citizenship for their kids.
And it's not just China, any place, right?
Where you were in the world, like, why not have that optionality and come to the United States, get a U.S. passport?
Along with whatever you had.
But then increasingly, and especially within the last four years, you have seen an influx of people.
Well, not even the last four years.
I mean, this has been going on for a couple of decades, but certainly, you know, the 20 million that came in unannounced during the Biden administration contributed to this.
You have people that are coming here illegally and they are having kids and they become American citizens.
And so what has happened is everything's kind of gotten warped.
And so what the Trump administration is pointing out is that you're creating these perverse incentives.
For people to come here illegally or for people to have tourist visas to come here to be able to have a child, and that's not how it was intended to be.
So, this is huge.
It is just, I mean, it's remarkable, not just with the birthright issue, which is a huge one, but all of this, you know, sort of interference from these lower court judges is now coming into question.
You can see the treatment in the media being SCOTUS hands Trump, a major win, limiting judges' ability to block his birthright citizenship order nationwide.
That's coming to us from Politico.
And look, I would say, any way you slice it, it is a huge win.
And even CNN had to admit this.
I was watching MSNBC as the news came in, you know, because I watched it also, so that we know, so that we know what everybody is thinking in every, you know, spot in the universe, right?
And I read everything too, all sides.
And the main sort of thrust of the argument there on MSNBC was that they were just confused.
They were really, really, really confused.
It's not that confusing, okay?
Because look, now a single judge cannot get in the way of an executive order.
They don't have the ability to issue a nationwide injunction, which is what they were doing.
With birthright citizenship as well as some other things.
So that no longer exists.
The court will have to go back and decide birthright citizenship at some point.
So this is sort of a temporary measure and we can talk about that.
But first, just know what a big deal this is because now you're saying to the district court judges, the federal judges, hey guys, it's game over.
You guys can't do this anymore.
What happened to Donald Trump?
Multiples of that.
And now finally, this case has made its way up to the Supreme Court.
And so we're going to go through this case as quickly as we can.
It looks like At first glimpse, and we're just starting, it looks like the court has put some limits on the ability of district courts, trial courts, to issue those kind of rulings.
And it looks like the court has said district courts only have the power to do that in certain very narrow circumstances.
So we're going to go through this and get the details soon, but that's the gist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So that's the gist, which means all those judges that are out there doing this, that, and the other are not going to be able to do that anymore.
14th Amendment and people that are in the jurisdiction thereof, right, of the United States, whether that would apply to anybody coming here, that may be still up for grabs because you're going to now have a little bit of chaos going on.
Now that we didn't have any already, right?
So now you get basically 22 states out there that are saying there is no way that Donald Trump can say that you are not a citizen of the United States if you're born in this country.
And then you have all the other states, all the red states that are going to say, well, we agree.
With Donald Trump.
And we do not believe that if you are here as an undocumented immigrant, if you're here on a tourist visa, this, that, and the other, you are going to be able to just automatically qualify for citizenship, birthright citizenship in the United States.
And so this is setting up that tension.
And at some point, the court will be forced to make a decision on that because you see what's going to happen, guys.
You're going to have all these 22 states come together.
I mean, Leticia James is already jumping at the bit.
We're going to get to her reaction in a second.
They're going to come together and they're going to say, okay, now we're suing on behalf of everybody.
Meanwhile, you're going to have the other states saying, We agree with the federal government.
And the federal government's going to go back to, ha ha, what do you know?
The naturalization clause.
What do you know?
The supremacy clause.
Oh, the commerce clause.
They're going to say we're the ones that have control over immigration and who is in this country.
So, our decision trumps, quite literally, anything you guys want to do.
Letitia, looking at you, honey.
So, that's going to be the next wrinkle, if you would, in this entire case.
And it's really upsetting some people.
Some people, like, oh, of course, AOC.
AOC has been saying for a while that somehow.
The Trump administration is anti immigration.
I mean, forget about the fact that they just brought in all those people from South Africa.
I mean, she would say that that's somehow racially motivated.
I mean, on and on and on and on.
And this is her, if you're looking at the screen, AOC in the Puerto Rican Day Parade, campaigning for the socialist communist mayor of New York City, who is now the Democrat nominee.
Let me tell you, let me tell you, the Democrats are scared right now because you have the likes of AOC and now this socialist about to take over New York City.
And they realize that this is not going to play in Peoria or the rest of the country.
So it's very specific to that sort of Brooklyn hipster crowd.
It was a lot of college educated white kids that decided to vote early for this guy.
And now everybody's like, oh my gosh, what are we going to do in the city of New York?
And they blame Alexandria Ocasio Cortez for it.
And believe me, she's now kind of up creek without a pal.
You look at what's coming out of some of the top Dems, Rahm Emanuel.
Oh my gosh, shift, you know, shifty shift.
Adam Schiff is actually praising Donald Trump on Iran.
We're going to get to that momentarily, but remember how mad they are.
Letitia James is livid.
AOC.
I mean, she thinks for some reason that the Republicans are anti immigrant, which they're not.
They're just saying, hey, we're pro law and order.
Imagine that.
About how this is about illegal versus legal immigration.
They are attacking legal status and removing legal status.
The Republican majority is anti legal immigration in the United States.
I want to make that very clear, and I yield back.
Really clear?
Well, I'm going to tell you, I want to play some sound from Representative Wesley Hunt.
He was recently in some hearings talking about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship and what it meant to him as a descendant of people that needed that 14th Amendment for all the obvious reasons.
In other words, it's rooted in something, and in his estimation, you are sort of trouncing all over the history and what was given to.
African Americans who had been enslaved, and he's not having it, not one bit of it.
Let's listen to Representative Hunt, a pretty spectacular defense of saying this is not fair, this is not right, this is not what was intended.
We are a nation of immigrants, but there's a difference, stark difference, between giving citizenship to the children of slaves, the children of those subject to the Middle Passage, the children of sharecroppers, and the children of those who were once considered property, and Giving citizenship to the children of people who cross the border illegally, stay in taxpayer funded luxury hotels, who receive free Xboxes, free cell phones, free flights around the country, and three square meals a day.
There's a big difference.
My great great grandfather was born on a plantation, Rosedown Plantation, in Louisiana.
He had to join the Union Color Guard to gain his freedom.
By morphing the citizenship clause into something that it wasn't meant to be, it's demeaning to descendants of slaves like me.
So, you know, a really interesting and important take once again saying, listen, this was written in a very different time and it was a very specific application.
And that's again what you heard from Donald Trump today.
And look, you know, Letitia's already chomping at the bit.
Letitia is livid.
How dare the Supreme Court actually say that, you know, I'm not going to have a future going after Trump anymore since all these federal judges can't have these nationwide injunctions.
Oh, she's going to be basically put out of business, right?
Here's her tweet.
Let's go to this, guys.
I'm going to wind up getting very close to the camera.
I'm back in my studio on Monday, but right now we're winging it from the road where I am actually visiting family up in Live Free or Die, New Hampshire.
So here we go.
We've got Letitia James saying the issue of birthright citizenship was not decided today.
SCOTUS remanded to the lower court the authority of federal judges to issue.
Nationwide injunctions.
A state attorney general who respects the Constitution is now more important than ever.
She knows that she's doomed, okay?
This is her way of trying to raise more money to actually get people to buy into whatever it is she's selling.
And that's why she's like trying to give herself, I mean, it's so obvious.
You know, she doesn't even have any sophistication or self-aware about how she does these things on Twitter, right?
To actually be a state.
Attorney general who respects the constitution is now more important than ever.
Oh my gosh, Tishy, baby.
You know what?
You don't really respect the constitution at all because if you respected the constitution, you would understand, would you not, that actually the federal government is going to trump you, no pun intended, oh, maybe, all day long because they are the ones with the jurisdiction over migration and naturalization and they're the ones that decide who's in the country, who's not.
Okay, so that should.
Has sailed.
I mean, you tell yourself whatever you want to tell yourself, but this is what's been going on.
I mean, the woman's becoming completely unhinged because every single time these legal decisions come down, we don't know what kind of law school she went to, given that she doesn't even understand.
Oh, when you fill out a mortgage application, you sign on the power of attorney, and you say that that's going to be your primary residence, you can't actually have those kind of clerical errors that would possibly have influenced your ability to get a better mortgage rate, Leticia, right?
That's a whole scandal.
Those allegations still going on, and they're going to be.
Very problematic for her, but I'm just saying she's not the best attorney general in the world, nor is she the best lawyer, but she's very emotional.
And she's super duper emotional, as we saw recently.
And you want me to sit in my seat and stand idly by and allow this craziness to happen?
You could come after me if you want, but you elected me to stand up.
You elected me to use the law.
You elected me to go to court.
You elected me to.
Continue to challenge this administration.
You elected me to stand up for the least of God's children.
You elected me to continue fighting on.
And I will fight on.
I'm sorry, guys.
I know you don't want to watch that.
But like I said, you need to know how the other side is thinking.
So this is a fight to her.
You see nothing but a fight, it's a political fight.
And as we just heard from Representative Wesley Hunt, there are real reasons that actually Leticia James should be kind of upset.
That this 14th Amendment is being extended to every Tom, Dick, and Harry, Tom, Dick, and Harry, and Jill, Susan, and Jane, and I guess everybody in between, since we have that these days, that wants to come to the US.
Come on.
But Leticia James, I mean, it's like one thing after another.
She filed another suit yesterday.
She's running out of money, you see, in the state of New York.
And this is what they actually said you know, he's going to be able to continue doing this.
Pam Bondi, you can just shut her off.
You can shut her off.
And she's not going to be able to have too much to say about it.
People are rising up.
And standing up against this governing this government, petitioning our government that in fact this is not, um, uh, this is not how we operate, this is not what we wanted, this is not what we voted for.
Individuals who are demanding due process and individuals who are demanding that this federal government follow the rule of law.
And so, I'm just, um, I am just really excited about all of the energy that I am seeing on the ground, and I'm also very proud of the fact that the one institution that's standing up.
And fighting back and holding this administration accountable are the courts.