Most Americans support the rule that anyone born in the US is a US citizen, and a majority of supreme court justices are skeptical of Trump’s efforts to restrict it
The US president himself was in the room – the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the court – coming face to face with justices that he has long berated and pressured to fall in line with his agenda. His attendance was a striking signal of just how significant this case is.
The egalitarian, universal rule that anyone born in the US is a US citizen was enshrined in the 14th amendment of the US constitution in 1868, and was affirmed by the supreme court 128 years ago. A ruling in favor of the Trump administration would cataclysmically redefine what it means to be an American.
In practical terms, it would mean that an estimated 250,000 babies born in the United States each year would be stripped of their citizenship. Some would be stateless. Legal experts warn that this outcome could pave the way for casting off citizenship from millions of people who already have it.
I’ll keep saying it and getting downvoted, but Dems don’t just get to try and reclaim power and act normal. They need to do this shit back to his supporters 100x whole simultaneously trying and executing this regime. Anything less is not enough.
Ex Post Facto for the Constitution? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
There’s very good reasons for the birthright citizenship dating from post-slavery. However, most countries don’t do birthright citizenship. They do have a statute that allows for citizenship if you were born there and lived there for a certain period of time though - which would/could arguably be a more sensible approach overall as long as the removal of birthright citizenship isn’t being done for bigotry reasons, which, unfortunately, the US has proved time and time again that is the main reason it exists in the first place and why it shouldn’t be removed. Once it eventually grows up past its racial-predjudice stage, it might be able to rectify this.
Name one country on earth that doesn’t have prejudice and racism. This isn’t just a US problem. Look at the fucking EU right now and all of their efforts to stop people from immigrating. The entire human race is a group of tribal in-groups that are too stupid to learn to get along. That’s why fucking Israel is dragging the world towards WWIII. The US is just too unfortunate in having a leader like Trump, whom the Zionists have Epstein dirt on. They’re using that dirt to blackmail him into fighting Iran. He’s a criminal. Netanyahu is a criminal. Yet they remain in power because we’re trying to remain civilized inside our own borders and not start another civil war. Eventually, our species will either evolve past it’s tribalism or go extinct. I’m wagering on extinction, because humans really are just a bunch of dumb apes.
