The US president issued an executive order in 2025 that seeks to undo constitutional right to birthright citizenship
The US supreme court on Wednesday appeared poised to protect birthright citizenship, the longstanding policy that babies born in the US are American citizens, in what would be a blow to a key immigration policy for Donald Trump.
The court heard oral arguments with Trump himself in attendance inside the courtroom’s public gallery. A majority of justices asked questions indicating skepticism about the government’s attempt to overturn birthright citizenship. But while some expected the case to be a clearcut win for those challengingthe government, it is unclear how many justices might side with Trump. A decision is expected this summer.
If birthright citizenship is overturned, hundreds of thousands of children born annually would be blocked from US citizenship.
They legally can not overturn this without rewriting the constitution, can they? I mean it’s literally written in the goddamned amendments.
“What was really meant was…” is how they turned the second amendment, clearly about forming a militia for national defense, into being about personal self defense.
The first half I made bold is what the second half is based on. It is about having an armed society so it can be a well regulated militia. Now those same words just mean people get to have guns for whatever reason they want and not because they are part of a militia.
In this case, they are pretending that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” means something completely fictional based on what they want it to mean blatantly contradicting over a century of clear reinforcement of what it literally means.