"It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t," Trump said, declaring he can do it by executive order
When toldthat’s very much in dispute, Trump replied: “You can definitely do it with an Act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order.”
"We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States … with all of those benefits," Trump continued. “It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”
Well we’re now halfway to the conceptual space of stripping me of my citizenship. Wonder if dad gets thrown out with mom for harboring an immigrant in his home for all those years?
My life-long best friend (going on 32 years now!) was born here, to parents that illegally entered by swimming across the Rio Grand. I can’t imagine life for him if Trump’s dream of deporting people like him to Mexico ever came to fruition.
So, instead of behind the back Fascism, he’s decided to go full on with it in public. It’s official folks, the Trump party is now akin to that of the National Fascist Party. Trump-olini.
I feel like Trump has always leaned in that direction, but he has apparently passed the point of giving a shit about how it looks to just be up front about it.
I figured this out the other day. It’s because for some people, they are worried that when they are the minority they’ll get treated the same way they currently treat minorities. ie some people are real assholes.
Actually, we’ve been through this somewhere upthread, I think, because it came up over the summer. Some ‘conservatives’ (Trumpists) want to say that the clause “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the 14th can be read to mean that people in the US illegally don’t count.
Not clear how one would argue both that an illegal immigrant is “not subject to the jurisdiction thereof” the US and that they can be detained / deported for being here illegally.
(obligatory:) Remember the good old days when Republicans screamed that Obama was illegally exceeding presidential executive authority by declaring it OK for a president to wear a tan suit whilst saluting the military, coffee cup in hand?
Michael Anton, a former national security adviser for Trump, pointed out in July that "there’s a clause in the middle of the amendment that people ignore or they misinterpret – subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
So maybe we could trade birthright citizenship (and lose Armando) for a Dem president changing the right to own guns via executive order. I think even Armando might go along with that one.
It’s more about the tone of conversation. If we’re at the point where nothing is forbidden and everything is possible, let’s not shirk from pushing liberal issues while fighting back against popularist nonsense.
If Republicans think because Democrats didn’t impeach Clinton 20 years ago everything is permissible, well, let them see what that really looks like in practice.
I don’t see this Trumpist thing surviving a SC challenge, unless the SC really is that far gone.
