Brilliant legal scholars they're not. Trump was probably blowing smoke anyway, throwing some red meat to his base before the election...
I think that's more of what he was trying - another one of his pie-in-the-sky spasms, like the 10% tax cut being worked on by the out-of-session Congress. You all get a pony!!!
In the interview with Axios, Trump falsely claimed: âWeâre 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 for 85 years with all of those benefits.â He added: âItâs ridiculous. Itâs ridiculous. And it has to end.â
In fact, dozens of states around the world, including Canada and Brazil, endow the same right. Countries such as the UK and Australia endow a restricted version.
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Constitutional amendments cannot be overridden by the president and can only be altered by a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress or support from two-thirds of state governments.
Nonetheless, attempts to curtail the right to citizenship at birth have long been pursued by hardliners in the Republican party. Legislation has been proposed in both the Senate and the House in recent years but has never passed a vote.
On Tuesday, the Republican senator Lindsey Graham said he would introduce legislation to support Trumpâs plan. In a statement, he said his measure would be âalong the same linesâ as the executive order. He did not give any details or timeline
Brilliant legal scholars they're not. Trump was probably blowing smoke anyway, throwing some red meat to his base before the election, but there is an argument that's been tossed around right-wing circles for a while claiming that the 14th amendment doesn't say what it plainly does. This article is a compact shredding of that argument.
If they try this in Congress it would likely die the slow, lingering death it deserves in the Senate. If it's tried as an executive order it would be instantly challenged in court and would fail very quickly. If it makes it as far as the Supremes we can be grateful that Trump's appointments have been textualists/originalists.
When rooting for judges be careful what you wish for.
In the interview with Axios, Trump falsely claimed: âWeâre 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 for 85 years with all of those benefits.â He added: âItâs ridiculous. Itâs ridiculous. And it has to end.â
In fact, dozens of states around the world, including Canada and Brazil, endow the same right. Countries such as the UK and Australia endow a restricted version.
(...)
Constitutional amendments cannot be overridden by the president and can only be altered by a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress or support from two-thirds of state governments.
Nonetheless, attempts to curtail the right to citizenship at birth have long been pursued by hardliners in the Republican party. Legislation has been proposed in both the Senate and the House in recent years but has never passed a vote.
On Tuesday, the Republican senator Lindsey Graham said he would introduce legislation to support Trumpâs plan. In a statement, he said his measure would be âalong the same linesâ as the executive order. He did not give any details or timeline.
