The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution opens with the phrase:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The US Supreme Court decided in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) that the words in the amendment speak for themselves.
It has been proposed/promised that an executive order could/will be used to modify or limit the Fourteenth Amendment’s application to certain persons born within the United States.
Discuss.
It says what it says, but with the current SCOTUS who the hell knows anymore.
Just ask the folks who are giving them money and gifts and trips and “loans.” They’ll know what it says.
If we really want to crack down on illegal immigration, we need to punish the people who employ illegal immigrants. Like Sinbad.
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I agree with the court on this one. If you’re born here, for better or worse, you’re a citizen.
Executive orders are not law, it is an instruction to the Executive Branch about something. You can’t change the Constitution with an Executive Order. It’s bullshit. The Constitution made a point of not having term limits on any branch. Only FDR chose to exceed the two terms that all previous Presidents had observed so the Constitution was amended to limit the President to two term. If the Congress wants to propose an amendment they can but the States will have to approve and it takes years. The President can try to pack the court but FDR tried and failed.
The ethics piece is the one that I would like to see get adopted. The court packing plan didn’t get done in terms of changing the numbers, but the court certainly had a change in attitude moving forward. You have to start somewhere. Throwing one’s hands up or complaining doesn’t get much done.
I agree the the ethics piece makes the most sense on the surface until you look at who would enforce the ethics reform. If we have learned anything in the last 8 years, everything political can be made unethical.
I would be all for term limits IF the congress got them too.
I need to dedicate one of these to this term limit panacea that I keep reading about around here. For the life of me I can’t figure out one damn thing that gets done for anyone, except for the folks who already go out and recruit candidates. To me its pure underpants gnomes:
Everyone wants to collect underpants and tells me there’s profit to be had in the end but that thingy in the middle…🤷♂️
I won’t quote Lewis this time but I think you know about pigs and mud.
Rather than term limits, how about age limits? Mandatory retirement at 65? You can only begin a term if you are under 65. If we get picky we could say some combination of time served and age not to exceed 20 years? Seems like that would cure the Grassley/Feinstein problem.
I’m not big on limiting our choices in a democracy. Part of self government is having the freedom to choose poorly, but at least there’s a choice and, hopefully, the electorate learns from its mistakes.
Ok. That got a chuckle this morning
Hey Derek, How is the LBQTU Or whatever the hell it is, agenda working out for you today when this Male BEAT the shit out of HIS female opponent in the olympics , Does that make you feel proud of your voting decisions?
When I, and 82 million other Americans, gave Biden exclusive rule-making authority over the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, each one of us were hoping for just such an event. Likewise, I was really disappointed with Nixon and his obvious culpability in the 1972 Games in Munich when they were disrupted by those Israeli athletes being taken hostage and murdered in Munich. Then Reagan literally injected Ben Johnson with steroids so he could beat Carl Lewis in 1988. That was sad. The association between the rise of Oscar Pistorius, his later dalliances with gun play, and the Bush administration is undeniable. And, finally, who will forget the trump administration’s 2018 fails in the South Korea Winter Games? The Agony of Defeat: The 10 Saddest Fails Of The 2018 Winter Olympics | Decider No one. Probably. So yes I see a direct line between American politics and all of the policies of the IOC as well as all of the contestants and events of the Olympiads whether they be winter, summer, special, Paralympic, whatever. It would be irresponsible not to. Have you read Robert Kennedy’s position paper on the pommel horse? Its gripping.