Summary
A U.S. appeals court has blocked Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship for children of non-citizen parents.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s emergency stay request, upholding a lower court’s nationwide injunction.
The ruling, made by a three-judge panel, argued that citizenship rights under the 14th Amendment are beyond presidential authority to alter.
The Justice Department is appealing similar rulings in other states, and the case may ultimately reach the Supreme Court. Arguments in the 9th Circuit case are set for June.
Does it even need to? It’s very clear wording. There is literally no argument you could make that can misinterpret the language. It’s like the singular thing in the constitution that is extremely clear language.
We’ll see, I guess. They may just as well not take it up and say that the lower courts have it right. They’re kind of unpredictable like that.
You seem to think they give a shit what the constitution says in the face of all the evidence to the contrary.
The problem is, if he can somehow get rid of birthright citizenship, then no one is an American.
It doesn’t just affect potential immigrants, it’s affects every human born in the US, past and present.
Anyone they want to be American will be American. The rules have been abandoned and you cannot just hope they’ll obey them.
You forget, this would be another opportunity for the judicial branch to bypass Congress and “write” law, and they love that power.
Yes, I know the rules too. No, they consider themselves above the law.
Congress has too many cooks to change the Constitution properly, and likely wouldn’t pass. An executive order and crooked judgement may be testing the waters to for future dictatorship.