Prof. Sam Merchant Appears on NewsNation’s Live Coverage of Supreme Court Rulings

Professor Sam Merchant delivered live legal analysis on NewsNation as the Supreme Court released landmark decisions yesterday. Major rulings included the president’s ability to fire heads of independent agencies, birthright citizenship, trans children in school sports, mail-in voting and campaign contributions. Regarding the birthright citizenship case, Prof. Merchant said, “The president has stated in the past that birthright citizenship is ‘dumb.’ The majority has responded today by saying: “what you do with a constitutional provision you think is dumb is amend the Constitution.’” Watch the coverage of the birthright citizenship ruling with Prof. Merchant’s comments here and here.