https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1057315666259333120
Pence is willing to flout the Constitution to drive this ridiculous idea into the midterms. Whatever happened to the strict constructionists in the GOP, who found Constitutional certainty in language far less clear that the citizenship provision of the 14th Amendment? https://t.co/ezWNbvmiho
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 30, 2018
Know anyone else who needs to brush up on the 14th Amendment? https://t.co/Inlxc6kD2v
— ACLU (@ACLU) October 30, 2018
This is a blatantly unconstitutional attempt to fan the flames of anti-immigrant hatred in the days ahead of the midterms.
The 14th Amendment’s citizenship guarantee is clear. You can’t erase the Constitution with an executive order, @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/8vGkjOlPsE
— ACLU (@ACLU) October 30, 2018
The 14th Amendment overturned a Supreme Court ruling that black people could not claim rights as citizens because past leaders had denied them rights. The amendment took away power to define people out of citizenship, which Trump now says he’d like to do.
https://t.co/PYVxpclTGl— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) October 30, 2018
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3 responses to “Fanning the flames of anti-immigrant hatred”
Correct, in no other country in the world can a person have a baby and that baby be a citizen of the United States.
It boggles my mind that Trump appears to be saying that he thinks there should be other countries a person can go to, have a baby, and for that baby to be a citizen of the United States. Moreover, he thinks that it’s ridiculous that this isn’t already the case. I mean, that is the most straightforward interpretation of what he actually said, right?
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That is the first thing that struck me, too. I tend to collect syntax errors and other things to amuse myself in odd moments, and I’ll probably add this to “looking for survivors with dogs” and “going to live with Jesus at his home in Sutton, NE”.
“The 14th Amendment provides for birthright citizenship. I’ve looked at the legal arguments against it & I will tell you, as a Supreme Court litigator, those arguments are not very good. As much as someone may dislike the policy… it’s in the U.S. Constitution.”
Ted Cruz, 2011