It's Wednesday, January 22nd.
I'm Jane Kostin, and this is what the show welcoming you to, the third day of Trump's second term, where everything's made up and the felonies don't matter.
On today's show, more fallout from Trump's decision to pardon almost all of the January 6th insurrectionists and commute the sentences of the rest.
And New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik gets her chance to overwhelm senators with vague platitudes during her confirmation hearing.
It's a flood out there when it comes to news.
There are any number of terrible things that have happened within the last 48 hours that we could leave the show with today.
That is, unfortunately, kind of President Donald Trump's way of doing business.
Flood the zone with shit, as they say.
But today we're going to focus on the many executive orders Trump signed Monday night to restrict immigration, including an order to end birthright citizenship in the US.
We'Re the only country in the world that does this with birthright, as you know, and it's just absolutely ridiculous.
But, you know, we'll see.
We think it we have very good grounds.
Certainly people have wanted to do this for decades.
Just as a quick fact check, other countries do have birthright citizenship, including both Canada and Mexico.
But here's my what's actually in the order?
Well, Trump wants to deny birthright citizenship to the future children of undocumented immigrants, as well as the children of those who are here legally but with only temporary status.
And he wants to do that by just waving a wand and reinterpreting the 14th Amendment, the part of the Constitution where the century old right lives.
The administration is already facing lawsuits for more than 20 states and the ACLU over the birthright citizenship order.
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said presidents are not kings.
This is an extreme and unprecedented act, and this executive order is an assault on the rule of law.