Just go all the way donald and put the hood on.
Don’t let this bloviating noisehole distract you. Health care. Existing conditions. The stuff Republicans actually have the power to gut if we don’t GOTV.
They’d love to make this election about boring-to-most Constitutional nuance.
Pretty sure the 14th Amendment violates the Logan Act and can be sued under RICO, as well.
I think he’s right! Without birthright citizenship, trump could never be President and wouldn’t be stinking up the atmosphere now.
He sounds desperate.
Hey, if undocumented immigrants AREN’T subject to US jurisdiction, that’s a real game-changer which I’m not sure POTUS has truly thought all the way through.
(Of course he hasn’t.)
I mean, ICE is gonna have a whole lot less to do if all the folks here illegally aren’t subject to US jurisdiction. Just saying.
Also too, I didn’t write this tweet either.
Shorter Trump:
Trump is a linguist AND a constitutional scholar? A true renaissance man.
This is late stage gaslighting. Jurisdiction does not mean Jurisdiction.
Stephen “Many Legal Scholars” Miller agrees.
I think the “many legal scholars” Trump is talking about are Gorsuchs and Kavanaugh.
All it takes to override the Constitution is an executive order and a compliant Supreme Court.
can someone with a soapbox to shout from please ask tRUmp if there will be any exclusions to this policy change to continue to allow russians to use his Florida properties for the very purpose of gaining birthright citizenship for their babies?
this might actually embarrass him if that were feasible
Vote! Vote! Vote!
An enormous tax cut for the wealthy and corporations, that let Mitch float the possibility of taking the ax to Medicare and Social Security. Don’t forget about that one.
Vote!
Go pound sand Donald – America isn’t getting fooled again. November is Coming!
Seems like an unforced error, IMO, if this was an election ploy. This isn’t going to motivate anyone in his base to vote who isn’t already voting. Plus if he’s gonna do it by EO, he doesn’t need Congress, governors, etc.
While Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito and Thomas probably would go along with this, I cannot imagine Roberts would. I just can’t. I may have fundamentally misread the man, or be falsely hopeful to preserve my sanity, but I don’t think he would.
The only people it would seem to motivate would be the (few) “moderate R’s” who were gonna hold their noses again, especially POC who vote conservative - they may not vote D, but this may piss them off enough to stay home. I think about people like my parents’ friends, who are Indian immigrants and vote R for tax cuts and because they’re a bunch of judgmental, moralizing harpies. I am making sure to remind all of them that no birthright citizenship means THEIR kids would not be citizens.
Also, this (theoretically) could motivate Dem base more - many of us are children of immigrants and can imagine being affected by this.
That said, it is absolutely terrifying that our media is treating this like something he could potentially have the right to do, and trying to analyze it as a legal question, in the name of “both sides” coverage. Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood we’re right the other day - when the history of this time is written, the media is NOT going to come out looking good, with a few exceptions.
But just for the record, one of the “other” ways will not be by Executive Order. He is truly unfit for office in that he has no real understanding of his Constitutional powers, only his ability to share his ignorant opinions with the world via Twitter. Then again, I think that’s mostly why Twitter exists, and not just for him.
God you are pathetic. I read this morning he is saying that constitutional scholars gave him “permission” to change the constitution.
Birthright citizenship isn’t going anywhere.
“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Except for the parts i don’t like.
That is one meaningful qualifier.
I doubt you’ll take this bet, but how much do you wanna bet that we won’t hear word one about birthright citizenship after the election? This is the ebola epidemic of 2018.