MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agoTrump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.slate.comexternal-linkmessage-square267fedilinkarrow-up1687arrow-down13cross-posted to: news@endlesstalk.org
arrow-up1684arrow-down1external-linkTrump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.slate.comMuskyMelon@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square267fedilinkcross-posted to: news@endlesstalk.org
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-21 month agoThen end it going forward. Don’t retroactively remove it from people who had no choice and who have never known any different.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month ago Then end it going forward. You mean, “then arrange for a constitutional convention at which you can propose the repeal of the 14th amendment, and then have people vote on it”. The president has no ability to end either form of birthright citizenship, it can only be done by modifying the constitution.
Then end it going forward. Don’t retroactively remove it from people who had no choice and who have never known any different.
You mean, “then arrange for a constitutional convention at which you can propose the repeal of the 14th amendment, and then have people vote on it”.
The president has no ability to end either form of birthright citizenship, it can only be done by modifying the constitution.