MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend came unglued on Friday during a discussion on the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling on birthright citizenship, calling the ruling “insane.”
On Friday, SCOTUS delivered a powerful rebuke of activist judges and handed President Trump a pivotal legal victory by reaffirming the rightful balance of power between the judiciary and the executive.
In a 6–3 decision, the Court sided with the Trump administration, ruling that federal district courts lack the constitutional or statutory authority to issue so-called ‘universal injunctions.’ The ruling stems from challenges to President Trump’s executive order.
Hours after taking office, Trump signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship, which gives children born in the U.S. the immediate right to citizenship.
The rule of law was too much for Sanders Townsend.
“I just don’t, I can’t believe that we are asking the question, ‘is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution constitutional?’ That is what, it is crazy. And I am sorry, but people need to call, ‘this is crazy.’ They are asking us… They’re asking us not to believe our own eyes and our own ears. They’re asking us to go against everything that we know to be true. This is insane,” Sanders Townsend said.
Fellow MSNBC host Michael Steele added, “this is the landscape we find ourselves on now.”
“I mean, the reality is that they have been very effective. Trump and his minions inside the government have been very effective at setting the stairsteps to the various narratives that they want to get accomplished,” he said.
Following the ruling, President Trump told reporters, “We can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies” that were previously blocked by radical left judges.
This includes previous executive orders and actions, such as “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,” the President told reporters.
