so long as

“And even the pitches I don’t really necessarily command, I feel pretty good about so long as my, you know, if I get my velo up a little bit, I think I’ll be able to pitch the way I want to.”

They wrote, “The Government’s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.”

Under traditional rational basis review—the lowest, most permissive tier of judicial scrutiny—laws are upheld so long as they are “conceivably” related to a legitimate government interest.

If Plyler is overturned, it could open the door to even broader legislative attacks, this time shielded by the most permissive form of judicial review that permits discriminatory laws to survive so long as any conceivable justification—no matter how speculative—can be asserted.

And if the government’s denaturalization attempt were to succeed, that person returns to the immigration status they had before becoming a citizen, and they don’t necessarily face deportation, so long as that status is lawful.