President Donald Trump is seeking rehearing at the Supreme Court on two recent decisions, including the court’s ruling on birthright citizenship and a $5 million verdict in a case involving magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Birthright Citizenship Case
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to invalidate Trump’s effort to end automatic birthright citizenship through executive order, with a five-justice majority concluding that the order violated the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.
Trump has vowed to ask the court to re-do its decision, calling it a ‘miscarriage of justice’ that will ‘destroy America’ if not changed.
E. Jean Carroll Case
Trump’s lawyers have also filed for a rehearing of the court’s decision to deny an appeal of the $5 million verdict in the Carroll case, in which Trump was found to have sexually abused and defamed the magazine columnist.
The Supreme Court rarely grants rehearings, with the last instance of a rehearing being granted in 1965.
Original reporting: KEYT (Ventura/Santa Barbara) — read the source article.
