Trump made his Supreme Court defeat 'all the greater' with surprising move: WSJ
Constitutional questions test judicial philosophy as Americans debate the role of unelected judges.
President Donald Trump lost big at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as a majority of the justices struck down his executive order abolishing birthright citizenship in the United States — but it's possible there's an alternate reality in which he could have won this, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote .
Specifically, they argued, Trump could have tried a much less sweeping change to America's citizenship system, and gotten a more favorable result out of it. "An interesting counterfactual is how the Justices might have come out on a narrower order, if Mr.
Trump had tried to end birthright citizenship for transients alone," wrote the board, which has been forecasting Trump's loss on this issue for months. But instead, "he took the advice of those who recommended an expansi...
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