Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship could be decided by the Supreme Court

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Donald Trump’s team is crafting an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, a monumental move the president-elect’s allies say is a key step in their long-term strategy: getting the issue before the Supreme Court.

The effect of Trump’s order would be to exclude the children of undocumented immigrants and short-term visitors to the U.S. from the right to citizenship by birth that is established under the 14th Amendment. And while there are few details on what exactly he would do and how sweeping the action would be, immigration restrictionists say Trump could do several things, including directing the State Department to refuse to issue passports to children without proof of the parents’ immigration status or the Social Security Administration to withhold Social Security numbers.

He could also direct agencies providing welfare and public benefits to U.S. citizens to deny these benefits to those claiming birthright citizenship, whose parents are in the country illegally. Details of the plan remain unclear, but it would deliver on a promise Trump has made over his entire political career: to restrict birthright citizenship.

Implementation would be no easy feat, but the Trump administration likely wouldn’t get far anyway — at least at first. Any move Trump makes to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to undocumented parents will be immediately challenged by pro-immigration groups and civil rights organizations. And conservative immigration groups are optimistic that the issue could eventually wind up before the nation’s highest court, which they hope will rule in their favor.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-plan-end-birthright-citizenship-160000406.html

He should lose but with today's SCOTUS you can't be sure.

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1. I think SCOTUS would have a hard time overruling a Consitutional Amendment that explicit. Hard to interpret

the language any different from what it says.

But, you are correct we can't be totally certain.

"With extremely limited exceptions, the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause provides that all children born in the U.S. are citizens. The birthright citizenship rule comes from English common law and dates back centuries." -- ACLU

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2. Well they made the constitution unconstitutional with immunity for fuckface

Who knows what they can do

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4. Not really. Government officials have almost always had immunity for "official acts." And trump really didn't gain

much from the immunity rule but delaying his fraud, rape, and other cases that might have imprisoned him before election.

But, sure can't say never.

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9. Marbury v Madison granted it

but excluded times when the law was broken. The Supreme Court ruling was sweeping and contrary to the law. It changed us into a dictatorship.

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3. SCOTUS already invalidated 14A Sec 3.

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6. And a well-regulated militia means an unregulated non-militia

And a woman can be enslaved for the purpose of breeding without violating the 13th amendment ban on slavery.

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7. No they didnt

It was a bipartisan ruling that said states shouldn’t have the power to interpret the constitution for the nation, only federal courts or Congress.

[Igel]

11. But ...

the headlines!

[Henry203]

5. I am a grandson

Of a birthright citizen who was deported. The original immigrant crisis were the Chinese.

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8. It would take incredibly cruelty

to tell someone who was born here that they don't belong here.

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10. See Niemoeller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

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12. The Gang of Six is bought and paid for

They'll deliver any ruling their puppet masters demand