The Real Danger of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Isn’t the Courts. It’s the Paperwork.
Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship is legally doomed, but that’s not the point. While courts deliberate, the administrative machinery could grind millions into bureaucratic limbo. The Constitution is clear, but paperwork doesn’t care about the Constitution. The real danger isn’t the ruling—it’s the gap between the order and the injunction.