Originally published at: Nativists Loom Over SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Arguments
The hard right has long wanted to end birthright citizenship in the United States. The view only came into vogue with the Republican mainstream — and entered the White House — in the last decade. But the policy cannot escape its origins: In adopting the view that birthright citizenship should end, the Trump administration and…
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Funny how the folks in this maladministration never talk about those here before and right after the Revolutionary War. Don’t remember being taught how all males got sworn in as citizens.
And they never seem to mention that the folks living in the Louisiana Purchase area weren’t made to take some citizenship test either.
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“Sauer admitted that during arguments, though much of his argument was grounded in a historical reading of the debate around the framing of the 1868 amendment.”
Indeed. Much of it can be reduced to a new perversion of “originalism” (which is itself already a perversion): “The guys who lost the argument when this was drafted should have won and so you should re-read the 14th Amendment to make it mean what they wanted instead of what the people who actually won the argument intended.”
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The total number of yearly visitors from China is around 1.5 million. I guess they’re all pregnant.
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Another “for me, but not for thee” privilege Trump has grabbed onto.
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Gosh, I am old enough to remember when they just wanted to deport the unauthorized foreign visitors that had committed a crime.
That is what inflation will get ya, now it is 100 million, a fair fraction of the US citizenry.
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I can’t believe people are falling for this April Fool’s Day joke. Clearly this issue wouldn’t come before the Supreme Court.
More seriously, my grandparents on my mom’s side came in 1920 (separately) from Ireland. My grandpa on my dad’s side was born in Chicago, but his dad was a whaler that came to the US from Nova Scotia in the early 1880s. The other parts of the tree are lost to the mists of time. If the nativists get their way, exactly where does he plan on deporting me? For that matter, Trump’s lineage doesn’t go back to the revolution – where are they planning on sending him?
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Potentially, they all could be. Even the children.
Greg Bovino, the CBP official who oversaw DHS operations in cities across America before the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis
That should be –until– the killings.
“Birth tourism” funny af because one of Trumps most scandalous activities besides his Russian money laundering operation through his properties to accommodate the rise of Putin’s oligarch’s is Trumps Russian anchor baby operation run through the same properties the Russians buy and sell to launder their money. The Russian oligarch’s send their mistresses to the condos they buy from Trump to have their children born as American citizens. Of course this is AOK with Trump as he is first and foremost a Russian asset and these anchor babies are white and born to the rich.
Great write-up. However, the last line is a paraphrase, not a quote. I think Josh was quoting what he wanted to hear, not what was actually said:
“It may be a new world, but it’s the same Constitution,” Roberts remarked.
The actual quote is:
“It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.”
The difference seems minor, but every word, phrase, pause, and punctuation mark matters when it comes to SCOTUS. Roberts’ statement contains two separate ideas that are not joined in anything other than proximity. He certainly could have said it the first way, but he didn’t. He was not dismissing the idea that a new world might need new rules, which is what Sauer was going for. He was implying that these new rules would still have to be shoe-horned into the existing Constitution somehow.
He did not say or imply that he was opposed to doing that.
Edward Said was a Palestinian raised in a Christian household. His grandfather was a Baptist minister. But he never put those facts forward lest he somehow privilege his Christian background when advocating for Palestinian rights.
Maybe he should have? No.
I I feel maybe something akin to his feelings. I mean, I can trace my ancestry back to the Pilgrim William Brewster and to the Carpenter who with Roger Williams founded Rhode Island. My Southern side is harder to trace – from at least 1700 to 1790. Let’s have at it, JD!
Fuck this shit. Fuck this shit. What a sick game.
There’s more. I had assumed Saure was legit guy not of my persuasion. But holy shit. He’s not that. Just go to his Wikipedia page:
I’m beginning to see Pope Leo in a new light.
Nativism is not new. It goes way, way back – pretty much to the Geo Washington administration.
It’s baked into a large segment of our populace.
Probably. I’m not sure “nativism” as it exists today is the same as then. A suspicion, but I don’t know much at all about the notion in George W’s day. I do (think) I know that immigrants started arriving in great numbers in and around 1790, mostly from the UK (including two lines, the latest, in my family lines – and boy, are there a lot of lines by 1790) but also from other parts of Europe, like Germany. The German immigrants in that period I’m aware of were welcomed. They were skilled tradesmen.
An interesting subject, to be sure!
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Will Rogers said his ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower, but were here to meet the boat.
He also said that when the Oakie’s moved to California from OK, they raised the IQ of both states.
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Gotta love Will Rogers.