Short of convincing both houses of Congress to repeal that part of the 14tb Amendment and then getting three fourths of the state to ratify the change, they’re not doing a goddamn thing.
The media needs to stop greasing the wheels for authoritarians
The media needs to stop greasing the wheels for authoritarians
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Mark Copelovitch
Today in the casual media normalization of patently unconstitutional far right authoritarianism
Birthright citizenship is not a "policy"
Birthright citizenship is not a "policy"
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Now that the judiciary has been taken over by corrupt hacks laws mean less than they used to.
"Fascism blames problems on false causes... people of other races"
Today he might say:
"Fascism blames problems on false causes.. people of color, asylum seekers, DEI, LGBTQ folks, science, women & Jews."
The question here is a practical one, not a legal one: when CBP starts jailing and deporting native-born children of non-citizens, who precisely will stop them?
Doesn’t make cities safer.
Does distract the press. Because wanting to change the constitution gets clicks, and rigorous analyses about the role of the secdef or the value of NATO do not.
What a time to be alive
He will write an order declaring these people to no longer be citizens. The government will be sued. It will go to SCOTUS where they will decide that it was 'decided incorrectly last time' and change the rules.
No fuss no mus
Trump's plan is to have SCOTUS rule that immigrants (or at least those w/o FULL documentation) are "alien enemies" who are hostilely occupying the U.S.
That would make their US born kids EXCEPTIONS to the "born in the U.S.... and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" rule.
#Satire
SCOTUS will find against birthright citizenship for the offspring of illegals.
He had formerly been an ardent supporter of birthright citizenship &was willing to show how malleable he was after DT’s election
*The People* to keep and bear arms Shall. Not. Be. Infringed.”
Pretty simple.
They reinforced The Heller methodology in NYSRPA vs Bruen as well.
Hopefully they grant cert on Snope this year.
#Dystopia
Oh, and by the by Wong Kim Ark was detained crossing the border into El Paso several years after the case was decided. He's the only person in the history of the country declared a citizen BY NAME and the racists still tried to keep him out.
The law hasn't stopped them.
Who will?
clearly. I wish the press would do the same. Of course the President cannot ignore the Constitution.
Last month he tweeted 👇🏻Notice he affirms T is disqualified & 2/3 of both Houses would need to lift that disqualification.
cynical rehearing and reversal of Harper v. Hall shook my confidence that stare decisis and normal legal reasoning were still things were a big part of why I quit being a lawyer.
The Constitution is not a self enforcing document. Just an FYI.
Seems like that's going to happen.
But, if the Supreme Court can misread and redefine the 2nd amendment, I have no faith that they wouldn't do the same with the 14th.
A government that lawless is fundamentally illegitimate.
—You’ll never get everything you need to amend the constitution—
“The what? Sorry I couldn’t hear you over the sounds of the busses driving people out”
—oh yeah we’ll SUE!—
“You mean, OUR 6-3 court?”
but the playbook is nothing other than the rules of our government, and, news flash, he's not following it
our journalists are so bad, it beggars belief
If you want to know a take they might use to go along with it.
In 1972 it still fell short of ratification.
I'll be a jar of ashes on the mantlepiece long before birthright citizenship is ended.
Get Supreme Court to reinterpret it. Don’t think even the current supremes would go
That far. But they are awful so . . .
(for instance, say they sue states and withhold funding for years while the cases go through appeals. or unconstitutionally stop certain benefits, get a nationwide injunction or other court order against that change, and ignore it)
it’s that I wish coverage “wargamed” the various bad faith strategies available, instead of getting blindsided over and over. in addition to not greasing the wheels as you said
He said in an interview that birthright citizenship doesn’t apply to invaders or their children.
Yeah, nah.
Yes I believe the country as we know could end starting with this issue.
He, and they, do not care.
Ah yes, all of us were merely “pre-wrong.” The collective understanding of the Constitution has been wrong for 100 years. Only the wisdom of Samuel Alito has saved us :/
I so want to just sleep for the next for years.
PRIORITIES!
But the right's plan will not ratify anything. It is to disregard the law, violate the Constitution, and win lawlessly in the Supreme Court.
I wish the media were capable of communicating that.