On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order eliminating birthright citizenship. He intends to amend the Cinstitution of the United States by his order. This is unprecedented. Eighteen state Attorney Generals filed suit today against this action.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the constitution begins with these words:
AMENDMENT XIV
Section 1.
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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Attorneys general from 18 states sued President Trump on Tuesday to block an executive order that refuses to recognize the U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants as citizens, the opening salvo in what promises to be a long legal battle over the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
The complaint, filed in Federal District Court in Massachusetts was joined by the cities of San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
The states view Mr. Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship as “extraordinary and extreme,” said New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, who led the legal effort along with the attorneys general from California and Massachusetts. “Presidents are powerful, but he is not a king. He cannot rewrite the Constitution with a stroke of the pen.”
On Monday, in the opening hours of his second term as president, Mr. Trump signed an order declaring that future children born to undocumented immigrants would no longer be treated as citizens. The order would extend even to the children of some mothers in the country legally but temporarily, such as foreign students or tourists.
Mr. Trump’s executive order asserts that the children of such noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, and thus aren’t covered by the 14th Amendment’s longstanding constitutional guarantee.
We will learn soon enough whether Trump has corrupted enough judges so that he is free to revise the constitution with a stroke of his pen.
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Diane, Our new attorney general is awesome! He was
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Trump’s Executive Order to eliminate birthright citizenship is a violation of his Oath of Office to uphold and defend the Constitution.
Impeach him!!!
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We’ve got him this time!
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Should I assume sarcasm in your thought?
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Ha yes.
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“…a number of U.S. allies in Europe do not offer birthright citizenship. Among the 32 countries in NATO, the U.S. and Canada are the only two that have unrestricted birthright citizenship.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5030514-trump-end-birthright-citizenship/
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Birthright citizenship is in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution – I thought conservatives were all about the Constitution?
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True and there are reasonable arguments for not having birthright citizenship. But the Constitution says what it says.
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In pre-authoritarian times, the anti-birthright citizenship movement could work to amend the Constitution.
In these times, right wing Justices will decide that the Constitution means whatever right wing authoritarians say it means, and a legal rationale is not required.
Has Trump made gay marriage illegal yet?
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“Has Trump made gay marriage illegal yet?”
I was wondering the same thing or rather when he would try to make it illegal.
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An interesting question about gay marriage.
Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito want the issue reopened.
Some state legislator has advanced a repeal.
The justification for gay marriage was the inherent right to privacy. The same logic would make interracial marriage illegal, thus dissolving Clarence Thomas’ marriage.
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This case WILL end up in the US Supreme Court. How will the justices vote?
Will the ruling be 5 to 4 with Roberts and one other justice appointed by a Republican president joining the three Democratically appointed justices to rule against FELON47’s executive order or will it be 6 to 3?
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Actually, it’s more than 18 states; it’s at least 22 states:
In “the District of Columbia and San Francisco, immigrant rights groups are also suing to stop Trump’s order.
Chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts along with other immigrant rights advocates filed a suit in New Hampshire federal court.”
“In addition to New Jersey and the two cities, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin joined the lawsuit to stop the order.
Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington filed a separate suit in federal court challenging Trump’s order as well.”
https://www.kolotv.com/2025/01/21/18-states-sue-block-trumps-executive-order-ending-birthright-citizenship/
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What governors are gonna bow to that infidel?
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A direct attack on the clear meaning of the Constitution from a traitor whose candidacy is in direct violation of the Constitution’s insurrectionist ban. Good job Mitch! Great work Garland! You clowns pupped out and now we’re done like dinner! They just couldn’t fathom that this Putin puppet was the existential threat to our country that our forefathers warned us about. Cowardice in its purest form.
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The Founders did warn us in The Fexeralist Papers about frauds like Trump. They were esp worried about candidates whose allegiance was to a foreign nation.
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I would think that the Supreme Court would have the common sense to strike down this order, not because of legality, but because of the chaos that such a change would create.
“implementing it would be difficult. When applying for passports Americans now have to submit only a birth certificate to prove their citizenship; these do not record the citizenship or legal status of parents. Birth certificates are also issued by local governments, and so that is unlikely to change soon, at least in Democratic states. To exclude foreigners’ children, everyone would have to provide documentation proving their status, notes Muzaffar Chishti, of the Migration Policy Institute, a think-tank.”
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