LISTEN: John Sauer Says 'I Think So' When Asked if Native Americans Are Birthright Citizens
Source: MEDIAite
Apr 1st, 2026, 1:15 pm
U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer stumbled over his words on Wednesday, saying I think so when after Justice Neil Gorsuch asked if Native Americans are birthright citizens. The moment came as Sauer presented the Trump administrations case to the Supreme Court in President Donald Trumps legal crusade to overturn birthright citizenship.
Do you think Native Americans today are birthright citizens under your test and under your friends test? Gorsuch asked at one point in his questioning. Uh, I think so? Sauer responded.
After dancing around the question, which Gorsuch asked two more times, Sauer finally admitted, I think so, on our test. If they were lawfully domiciled here. I have to think that through, but thats my reaction. Ill take the yes, thats all right, Gorsuch said as laughter was heard.
Gorsuch was appointed to the bench by Trump in 2017, following the death of Antonin Scalia.
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Gorsuch was a result of Turtle withholding Obama's pick for a SCOTUS seat.
enough
(13,760 posts)rpannier
(24,927 posts)There's a lot to hate about Gorsuch, but he's rather popular amongst Native Americans.
If he didn't see that coming, he is an idiot -- for which I am grateful because he weakens his case
Joinfortmill
(21,169 posts)Give it up.
Dan
(5,180 posts)then no one is.
yourout
(8,824 posts)reACTIONary
(7,165 posts)The question was whether they would be under Trump's executive order. Which really would be a stumper.
As one poster observed "I can't believe he wasn't prepared for that question."
JI7
(93,618 posts)This is a thing going around among some right wing white people.
That they conquered this land and built the land into what it is today.
The non whites are just taking what their ancestors built.
They say the indigenous people that were already here were savages and killed each other and didn't make anything.
If you bring up slavery they will start going on about how their own people sold them.
TheRickles
(3,386 posts)Are they deported back to their foreign home land - America?
AZ8theist
(7,381 posts)malthaussen
(18,572 posts)We'll send them to a gulag in Ecuador or somewhere. Somalia looks nice.
-- Mal
dickthegrouch
(4,528 posts)How utterly incompetent can one get????
In front of the SCROTUMs, no less.
Just like the fantastic healthcare we were supposed to get in 2016, and many other empty promises, these fools have not paid one microsecond to planning what they talked about, unless it benefits them and screws us.
Bayard
(29,707 posts)Did he graduate from trump University?
The Indigenous people here are the only ones who were not immigrants. All of the rest of us are, at some point. Columbus did not, "discover," America. There were already plenty of Natives here.
trump representatives continue to be disgracefully ignorant, just like him.
BumRushDaShow
(169,767 posts)was as disconcerting as listening to a Sean Spicer on steroids.
Six117
(340 posts)I've always liked that better. The First People were here long before some European map maker took it upon himself and named this part of the world after Amerigo Vespucci. There were thousands of independent nations and they are so much more than America.