Notable Quotes
“Unelected judges” don’t get to “update the intent of unchanged statutes.” (Quoted in government stay papers, echoing Fourth Circuit debate)
“Humphrey’s must be overruled.” — Sauer at the outset of Supreme Court arguments in Trump v. Slaughter.
He has argued that existing precedent “continues to tempt Congress to erect, at the heart of our government, a headless fourth branch insulated from political accountability.”
"The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause was adopted to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves and their children — not to the children of aliens illegally or temporarily in the United States," Sauer wrote in the administration’s petition.([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/873a45bc58de9e92773f554bf5bba9a0))
Early American legislatures recognized that habitual drunkards present heightened dangers of crime and violence. They classified drunkards as criminal vagrants subject to confinement in jail or workhouses. — Government's merits brief
The statute empowers the president to regulate imports during declared national emergencies, and that authority encompasses tariffs. Unwinding this would require refunding trillions and could bankrupt the government.