Snapshot · The Rest Is Politics: US
Under Alito's sole-allegiance-at-birth test, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. would not have qualified as citizens because their mother Ivana was a Czechoslovakian citizen at the time of their births.
Where this was said
At 37:00 · chapter starts 35:30
The episode's most explosive moment arrives quietly, as Scaramucci reads Alito's dissent logic back to its logical conclusion [1] — Anthony Scaramucci "Under Alito's sole-allegiance-at-birth test, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. would not have been U.S. citizens — their mother Ivana was Czechoslo…" 36:35 . The sole-allegiance-at-birth test Alito proposed — that citizenship at birth requires the parent to owe sole allegiance to the United States — would disqualify Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. entirely: their mother Ivana was a Czechoslovakian citizen when they were born. Marco Rubio and Bernie Moreno, both prominent Trump allies, would face the same fate. Scaramucci notes that Trump's team tried to draft the executive order with surgical exceptions for cases like his children's, but Alito's dissent went further than the executive order intended. Swisher and Scaramucci find this darkly clarifying: the policy isn't about immigration integrity, it's about keeping certain people out of the electorate. 'It solves that these people will probably be Democrats,' Swisher says flatly. Everything, in the end, is about stopping people from voting.
Under Alito's sole-allegiance-at-birth test, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. would not have been U.S. citizens — their mother Ivana was Czechoslovakian. Marco Rubio and Bernie Moreno would've been in the same boat. Trump tried to surgically write the executive order around his own family.
Kara Swisher drew a direct line between Stephen Miller and the bureaucrat who engineered Japanese-American internment — both powered by singular, evidence-free hatred of immigrants. She recommends Rachel Maddow's Burn Order podcast as the template for understanding how this happens.
A total of 8 states have filed lawsuits against social media platforms, including an ongoing case in Tennessee, using product liability and public nuisance theories to seek accountability.
France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
We use essential and analytics cookies to run Vuci. To understand how the site is used: Privacy Policy.
Install Vuci on your phone
Add it to your home screen for a faster, app-like experience.
Install Vuci on your phone
Tap the Share button, then “Add to Home Screen”.
A new version is available
Reload to get the latest Vuci.