The Trump administration wants to end automatic birthright citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to take steps to implement its proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship, handing a major win to the government.
The court granted a request by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by judges so that they apply only to states, groups and individuals that sued. That means the birthright citizenship proposal can likely move forward at least in part in the states that challenged it as well as those that did not.
The court was divided on ideological lines, with conservatives in the majority and liberals in dissent.
Isn’t this, like, catastrophic? Now, the government can basically do whatever it wants to people who don’t have the resources to challenge it in court themselves, or live in a state that will do it on their behalf.
Yes. It is over. Democracy has fallen. Do with that as you will
Eh, close, but that’s still theoretically barely viable until the administration takes the affirmative step of saying “everybody in Denver can’t vote but Rifle’s cool”, at which point anybody in Denver who can’t get a lawyer and a court date is probably screwed,
So, yeah I guess the difference between rule of law being down for the count and democracy going into hibernation might be entirely semantic in practice
Do with that as you will
I’m going to believe a lot of people are about to realize what a bad idea this all is and keep telling people what a bad idea this all is and eventually live in a better world or get dumped in a mass grave for running my mouth. Good luck everybody.
I’ll end up in that same dump im Sure…
Looks like a good day…
I take comfort that at least I’ll be in there with aliens and druids.
Want to hear something that would be a hoot if it weren’t so depressing?
I asked ChatGPT “with no more birthright citizenship, how can i prove that I’m an American?” IT COULDN’T ANSWER. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that, and I use it a lot for work.
Someone in this admin will try to say, “Both of your parents were born here… but their parents were here illegally so none of your citizenship counts.”
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My best guess is you’ll now need to have your parents and maybe even grandparents birth certificates if they were US citizens. That would be solid proof. If you get to see a judge
I get it a lot with political questions.
So none of us will be able to prove that we’re citizens. How convenient for the Ruling Party.
Uh oh… Clarence Thomas just got a new luxury RV for free! Thanks Harlan!
Did he quit?
He can’t. He has to vote for unconstitutional Trump shit to return the favors.
So John Oliver wasn’t his only RV suitor?
More bad behavior from the Roberts Supreme Court. Write it down, Democrats.
I’m just going to keep putting “bad behavior / bad behaviour” in the thread of each new piece of SCOTUS’ deliberate ignorance of democracy, constitution and the rule of law. You’ll be able to search my profile for it, and maybe Democrats can do something about it if they can retake power.
How optimistic you are, to assume that the token opposition party will EVER have any power, ever again.
It’s also a very bold assumption of mine that they would try to do anything more than the status quo even if they did manage to retake power, predicated on the Democratic Party being massively reformed. If there was ever a time to reform the Dems, that’s right now, years before midterms or a US general election.
And that you know, they’ll see this person profile in a niche social network.
No birthright citizenship in a country founded and inhabited almost entirely by immigrants, with no mandatory national ID? Yeah that’s gonna be a shitshow and a half.
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Well, at least “Genocide Joe” or “Kamala the Cop” won’t be killing Gazans.
…oh wait.
Anyway, I have yet to see some of the more strident both-sidering “leftists” apologize for anything they’ve said or done in the run-up to last fall’s election. I’m sure their sense of smug self-satisfaction will be a huge comfort to them as they are being shoved onto trains, er planes, destined to shithole countries that have signed up to outsource the gulags…because, well, “both sides” and “argle bargle something something the status quo”.
small legal question. does that mean that the US constitution is now secondary to federal policy?
and therefore would it be hyperbole to say that rule of law is gone?
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