Donny has been trying really hard to see the babies born on US soil to non-citizens lose their right to be Americans for being born here….
The Supreme Court upheld the principle of birthright citizenship on Tuesday, handing President Trump a major defeat on one of his signature immigration initiatives. In the 6-3 ruling, the court backed the idea that nearly all children born on US soil are American citizens, no matter the status of their parents. Chief Justice John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberal justices in striking down an executive order issued by Trump, reports SCOTUSblog and the New York Times. Roberts wrote the majority opinion.
The concept of birthright citizenship has been in place for more than a century under the 14th Amendment, which stipulates that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” The Trump administration disagrees with the interpretation of the sentence. But Roberts’ opinion declares:
- “Citizenship, then and now was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”
- In a sign of how much the case mattered to the White House, Trump attended oral arguments in person earlier this year. The ruling could affect the legal status of about 250,000 babies a year, notes Reuters.
One of the few times that the judges did not side with Donny Do-Little….why?
You can bet that the little nazi fucker Miller will be working on the next way to try and take citizenship away from some Americans.
I do not think this issue is dead just yet…..
What do you think of this turn?
I Read, I* Write, You KNow
“lego ergo scribo”
No doubt it will be amended to all babies born of at least one American parent. Miller won”t let this go.
You are right and there will be a new plan soon. chuq
He did lose two significant cases, the one concerning birthright citizenship, and the 2nd was his appeal of the judgement against him by Carroll when he was found to have defamed her and was judged to have raped her im civil court. I think the 2nd of these is the most damning because it would indicate that the evidence she brought forward that he had indeed sexually assaulted her as she claimed, and then later uttered outright lies about her in his public statements was so strong that not even all of his pet judges on SCOTUS could twist around their leal opinion to support him.
Have you noticed that finding has not been reported day and night? chuq
This was certainly a surprise, but I suspect the judgement will be short lived as soon as Miller figures out a workaround.
Best wishes, Pete.
You’re right, Pete. And it’s already started. The ruling was hardly out more than a few hours when at least two different GOP members of congress announced they were going to introduce bills banning pregnant women from entering the country.
GF off topic….did I hear right that Green Bay could break 100 today? chuq
We’ve been getting close to 100 F Chuq. Monday and Tuesday it was 97+ here, with 85% humidity. Think the heat index was around 107? Today we got a bit of relief. a t-storm rolled through and that knocked the high down to about 90
Sounds like South Mississippi in the Summer….LOL chuq
And there will be a work around. chuq