No, the president cannot end birthright citizenship by executive order

https://www.wkyc.com/video/news/verify/donald-trump/vfy-birthright-citizenship-updated-pkg/536-23f858c5-5478-413c-a676-c70f0db7c9f1

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  1. MAGA has never read the Constitution and haven’t developed object permanence, so it doesn’t really exist and yes they can. Checks and balances and minority rights are for beta cucks or something. 

  2. You mean *legally*, he can do whatever he wants and it appears he gets away with it each time…

  3. Who’s gonna stop him? Congress? Yeah right. The Supreme Court? lol. We’ve reached a point where the legality of what he does is irrelevant.

  4. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution:

    > All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    Birthright citizenship is protected by the US Constitution and is a long-standing American right. So why is it that all the Republicans out there screaming that we need to respect the Constitution are now completely silent when Trump is indicating that he plans to trample on our constitutional rights? Maybe they never actually cared at all about the Constitution (except the 2nd Amendment obviously) in the first place?

  5. Project 2025 aims to get rid of any of these ‘checks and balances’. I guess we’ll have to see how it works out.

    All these articles about Trump not being able to do what he ran on should have been coming out 24/7 months ago.

  7. If Trump gets his way, most European families who have been in the country for generations will see deportations. It won’t just be brown people.

  8. You thought he was going to prison.

    You thought he could never be reelected.

    You thought he couldn’t deport American citizens.

  10. “You can’t do that, it’s illegal.”

    As though that has ever stopped the GOP from accomplishing its goals.

  11. With the current supreme court, I’m skeptical of any statement that begins with “the president can’t…”

  12. Republican immigration stance is white supremacy 101. Use them, then get rid of them.

  13. But it made a hell of a breaking news headline for Fox and MAGA. Does no one remember the last time he was in office? He ruled by Executive Headlines.

  15. He can’t but his DOJ can ask the courts to change the interpretation of what that means, totally bypassing the people

  18. all he has to say is ending it is an official act and the supreme court will side with him in a 6-3 decision

  19. Sure, but how many *citizens* are going to get deported before the utterly corrupt Supreme Court simply refuses to hear the case?

  20. We need to stop pretending that law and precedence matter to these people.

  21. Laws and rules require others in government to say “no” and apply the checks and balances present in the constitution.

    Trump has spent 4 years since his last admin to purge those who do not listen or even attempt to restrict him. Elmo himself threatened other gop lawmakers to let Trump (and Elmo) do what they want or else.

    If nobody tries to stop him, then he will absolutely do/use anything he wants.

  22. The president can also not order a mob of his followers to attack the capitol to try and overturn the election and still remain, or run for future office.

    But here we are.

  23. Birthright citizenship is in the constitution, there is no way for him to end it. It’s also an important way to prevent creating an underclass of non-citizens who have no other country. We are facing a crisis in the fertility rate, we need more people to maintain our population and by extension the financial viability of programs like social security. A person born in this country who stays here will be fully an American and we should be welcoming them because we need young people.

  26. he can order the executive branch from providing documents and then the supreme court would have to do something about. what are the chances of that?

  27. Would be nice to have a President that wouldn’t even try, but mean lady Liz Cheney, the trans, and my eggs or whatever.

  28. I love how all of these articles are like “No, he can’t do that.” But like, why do people expect him to play by the same rules? Especially with a majority in the house, senate and SC. Who the fuck would even stop him?

    Bottom line is if he wants to do something, there will a long list of people of who will just let him.

  29. There is no enforcement body to stop anything in the US save for the street cop catching someone stealing bread.

  30. Of course he can’t, and anyone pretending he can is either a fool or purposefully lying.

  31. Nope

    But the SCOTUS sure can when the inevitable court case gets to them

  32. He said you’ll see American women crying because they’re being deported. How can you deport a citizen? At that point everyone needs to get to the streets and shut the country down. The party of caring about kids and it’s citizens will gladly destroy lives because they’re afraid of a little bit of color on someone’s skin.

    There’s certainly some violent repeat criminals who are illegal. As far as I know , coming into the country illegally is a misdemeanor. Is he going to go around rounding up people who have had DUIs and repeat drug offenses to keep our country safe. Maybe round up all the white collar criminals. Crazy that Trump got elected on this issue. They’re going to round up all the Democrat CEOs and politicians too and spare a few of them and then say “see we only rounded up the bad ones, we did it to protect you”. Only we can stop it and when the time comes it won’t be storming the capital. We need to have millions of people on the ground protesting and striking until it hurts his billionaire cabinet where it hurts. Their wallets.

  33. watch them do it anyway. laws are only as good as those enforcing them. they’re not enforced for the rich and powerful.

  35. Okay, well, people who engage in insurrections aren’t allowed to run for office again per the constitution. And yet!

  36. The law doesn’t protect you from the lawless and guess what all three bodies of government are run by the lawless.

    If you think the courts will stop Trump you are in for a rude awakening.

    The only thing that will stop Trump is the people and it will come at a great cost to this country. We will be lucky if anything resembling present day America remains after his administration.

  37. Only the democrats are shackled by the rules, Republicans pretend they don’t exist and ram shit thru.

  38. He will do anything he wants. He’s got the Supreme Court in his pocket. We all sat back and allowed this to happen. Republicans played the long game while democrats sat around trying to be the bigger person and think of everyone. We got played

  39. The President also isn’t supposed to be a convicted rapist/pedophile and murderer either. But here we are.

  40. If he owns all three branches of the government, than he kinda can.

    And Dems will still be blamed.

  41. President’s are also not allowed to orchestrate legit terrorist attacks on the Capitol to seize power and be able to get reelected, but here we are.

  42. They have all three chambers and the court. They are going to make (more) new rules. Pretending laws, or even worse, precedent and norms matter is not going to help. They have said what their plans are. It’s not move the needle by working within the system.

  43. But, can the King? Can the Emperor? Can America’s CEO?

    What title has he landed on?

  44. There’s a lot of things theoretically Trump cannot do, but then he does them and SCOTUS backs him up. Don’t sit back and think “he can’t do that,” because he will try.

  45. I’m as horrified by what’s coming as anyone else here, but I will say that I don’t expect the SC to let him denaturalize people. Even the most ideological courts have to retain a veneer of legacy, and I just don’t think there’s any ostensibly legitimate argument to be made that the president can denaturalize anyone. Ideological judges need some sort of legal cover when enacting their policy preferences and there’s none available for judges who want to support Trump in this endeavor. I hope I’m right.

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