Honestly, this one is a scary one. I know not every country has birthright citizenship, but it’s a terrible thing for people to be stateless in our modern world and this would primarily affect kids if it goes into effect. Not to mention the question of who else suddenly loses citizenship. You have to expect that if this succeeds in changing birthright citizenship then someone else later could change it again to take citizenship away from even more people.
This is also the most blatantly unconstitutional order he has ever given. The 14th Amendment is EXTREMELY clear. If this stands up in court than there is no reason that forcing people to pray in schools or pledging allegiance to the Trump family wouldn’t as well.
If SCOTUS upholds this executive order, they are just giving up on any pretense of caring about the text and meaning of the constitution. There’s a lot of stuff in there that’s ambiguous, but birthright citizenship is very much clear. If SCOTUS says ‘yeah that’s fine’, then every other constitutional right is next on the chopping block.
The terrifying part is that he probably can obtain the 5 SCOTUS votes to uphold this.
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