Good thing SCOTUS will tell him that it’s all settled law, right…?
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Good Lord, we need those other options for reaction emojis.
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This is probably one of the most tortuous usage of the words “served” and “commander” ever employed in a sentence. Perhaps he could pay the US Navy to let him sit in a chair on the command deck of an aircraft carrier so he can also be awarded the title of Naval commander?
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Leopards eating Republican faces.
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Remember how Trump was “going to get rid of bloat”? Here he’s creating yet more groups and positions out of whole cloth.
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It’s not even settled law, it’s IN a constitutional amendment. It’s clear as day. And the context was that it was designed to give Black Americans full citizenship rights after slavery.
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And yet, they still had to argue this case:
If the current court can trash Roe v. Wade, I wouldn’t count anything as nailed down.
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Sure and the reality is that this court is absolutely unpredictable, in that they were willing to upend a few decades of rulings around privacy as a constitutional right… they might not care about it being in the constitution, plain text and all… I could see them wanting to throw out the reconstruction amendments…
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I could see them wanting to, but other than a new constitutional amendment, can they? How do you declare the Constitution unconstitutional?
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Phrasing fuckery. They’ll question if “illegal” parents are really “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”.
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I’m not sure that saying non-citizen immigrants aren’t subject to U.S. laws is a place their base would support.
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Was just going to suggest, it makes them sound like sovereign (non)citizens! (Or, SovCits, & their citizenship happens to lie elsewhere)
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You just have to interpret that phrasing in a way to make it as evil as possible. While I’ve never seen a cult member claim US laws don’t apply to immigrants (not the phrasing they were using, you understand), in the past week I have seen claims that the protections offered by the constitution and our laws do not apply to them. So apparently the idea is a non-citizen is still subject to laws about traffic or “stealing,” but is not protected from search and seizure or entitled to a fair trail.
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You are assuming that that’s not already the picture that’s in their head. “Hordes of illegals crossing the border and committing crimes and the police can’t do anything about it” basically means that the laws don’t apply to “illegals”. (Yes, we all know that that’s all several layers of malevolent bullshit thick, but MAGA is self-selecting on the basis of being able to believe whatever they’re told to.)
Also, you’re forgetting the next logical step: if they’re not subject to US law, then they’re not subject to any of its protections either. If MAGA believes the first, then the second follows, and there’s no need to worry about Habeas Corpus or wrongful arrest or anything.
Get rid of birthright citizenship, and that’s a lot of people who are no longer subject to any protections under the law.
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Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week’s event including whether law abiding, undocumented migrants should worry about Trump’s proposed mass deportations and more.
They examine his non-constitutional, evasive answers.
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I don’t think anyone is actually protected by citizenship if you aren’t entitled to a chance in court unless they already think you have it. At that point you are only protected by looking like someone they think should be a citizen.
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That is sadly the truth. Higher melanin content will be more of a deciding factor in “rights of citizenship” than any legal grounds.
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It’s a rich tapestry.
If you’re not a citizen, and they’ve removed protections under the law, then you have no recourse.
If you’re a citizen by birthright, then you’re not actually a citizen, see above.
If you’re a citizen even under those circumstances but you have non-white skin and/or an accent, then they’re not going to check whether you’re a citizen or not when they put you in the van, and you might have had recourse but good luck getting access to it from the deportee camps in Mexico, or from your grave when you were shot while “resisting arrest”.
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