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Originally Posted by Patrick McGoohan
Uh yeah. There's a reason why the birthright citizenship clause is in the 14th Amendment. Because in Dredd Scott, the Court ruled that people of color were NOT US citizens and could never be.
That language was 100% intentional- to ensure citizenship for millions of people who were born in this country.
But this is exactly what Trump is counting on. There's not going to be an Executive Order. And the Courts aren't going to touch birthright citizenship because it's not even a question of interpretation- it's explicitly written into our Constitution.
He's doing it because he knows morons like Fortybox are going to get all riled up and excited and will want to go out and vote to help end birthright citizenship- which no one can do without a Constitutional amendment.
It’s not a change to the constitution if the executive order holds up the original intent. You’re the one advocating to expand the 14th beyond the meaning - which isn’t surprising because the left wants to ascribe new meanings outside of the original intentions of why the amendment(s) were put in the first place.
Intent is important and you just want to manipulate the amendment to account for additional details not even thought of when the amendment was drafted. Illegal aliens pooping out babies who then get citizenship wasn’t the intent.
I don’t expect the SC to side with Trump on this but he is absolutely right.