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allgood33

(1,584 posts) Tue Oct 30, 2018, 10:32 PM Oct 2018

I know it won't happen, or at least I hope it won't happen, but eliminating birthright citizenship..

How would they do that even with a Constitutional amendment? Would people be grandfathered in? Would it be retroactive to a certain date? Would that make Trump not a citizen?

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I know it won't happen, or at least I hope it won't happen, but eliminating birthright citizenship.. (Original Post) allgood33 Oct 2018 OP

His mother came from Scotland in some questionable way, IIRC nt Grasswire2 Oct 2018 #1

Even Trumpers are admitting he doesn't have the authority Jake Stern Oct 2018 #2

I don't see the SCOTUS unilaterally declaring that an Amendment mr_lebowski Oct 2018 #3

Grasswire2

(13,567 posts)

1. His mother came from Scotland in some questionable way, IIRC nt

Reply to allgood33 (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 10:33 PM

Oct 2018

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)

2. Even Trumpers are admitting he doesn't have the authority

Reply to allgood33 (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2018, 10:41 PM

Oct 2018

They're hoping that his signing the EO will provoke the ACLU to sue so it can go to SCOTUS where the conservative majority will interpret the 14th Amendment as not applying to undocumented immigrants.

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

3. I don't see the SCOTUS unilaterally declaring that an Amendment

Reply to Jake Stern (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 12:26 AM

Oct 2018

To the Constitution, written in plain English (unlike the 2A), says something completely different from what it actually says.

They wouldn't dare ... would they?

That would most definitely provoke a major Constitutional Crisis.

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