Only exception is for children of foreign diplomats born in the USA.
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Anchors Aweigh!
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It’s all Elon’s fault
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He does seem to procreate at an aggressive rate.
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The right to birthright citizenship was a 5-4 vote. The 6-3 vote was against the executive order to end the right citizenship because it violated the 14th amendment.
THAT is the key issue being litigated, and the key holding.
That means…only a Constitutional amendment can limit birthright citizenship, even for persons born to individuals who are unlawfully present.
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Even with a stacked court, couldn’t ger the majority
True but I do find it disturbing that only 6 Supreme Court justices can in fact read the Constitution. I mean two of them are shameless hacks so that’s a given.
But I mean it’s one victory in a string of trash decisions of unitary executive theory and legalized corruption.
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When they said money is free speech they doomed average Americans
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I don’t necessarily agree with the concept of birthright citizenship in the modern world considering the ease of mobility of people into the US now (compared to 250 years ago) and the resulting ability to exploit this law for personal gain, however, there is no question in my mind that the Constitution allows it. It is kind of crazy to me that this wasn’t a 9-0 ruling - I mean it seems pretty much as clear as day what is in the Constitution. If a political party wants to change birthright citizenship they need to change the Constitution via amendment.
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When you have a self-avowed “textualist and originalist” making the claim that the meaning of the Constitution has changed over the years because of immigration, you know all you need to know about his thought proce$$.
Not only is the text itself pretty clear, but we also have 130+ years of consistent precedent backing it up. Justices latching on to previously-rejected and constitutionally absurd arguments as justification for overturning precedent and ignoring the plain language is actually shameful.
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Dumb ruling by the court. The 14th was never meant for those here illegally to get birthright citizenship. But that being said Congress should do their job and fix it. But they won’t because they never do the right thing
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Probably won’t work. It would most likely require a Constitutional Amendment, and you need 2/3 of both houses, plus 3/4 of the states to make that happen.
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The 14th amendment says what it says. Someone may not like what it says but that’s another issue.
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Yeah, feels a little like a left leaning position.
How did we ever add amendments in the past?
Answer: at various times we had enough of a national consensus on a matter.
I doubt you’d get 2/3 of Congress to agree on THIS matter, much less 3/4 of the states.
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Does arguing the original intention and statements of the 14th amendment classify as politics?
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Yeah, no chance on this one.