Time for the president to resurrect another hot issue to keep us distracted
Birthright citizenship will soon be back in the headlines, trust me on this
As our dear president continues to come up with a new issue every day in the hope that the Epstein files will remain yesterday’s news, I’m sure he’ll come back around to what a horrible thing birthright citizenship is for the greatest country on earth. A country, by the way, built by immigrants, including those very first undocumented folks who landed at Plymouth Rock with a Thanksgiving turkey ready to be carved.
So, let’s go back several months to late summer of this year and see what an honorable judge had to say about this issue. (Birthright citizenship, not Thanksgiving turkey.)
“A federal appeals court once again blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to repeal birthright citizenship, the idea rooted in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that every person born in the United States is an American citizen,” said the opening paragraph by Seattle Times reporter Nick Wagner.
According to Judge Ronald Gould, writing for a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, Trump’s order is invalid “because it contradicts the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment’s grant of citizenship.”
Yes, yet another “woke” judge the U.S. Supreme Court will have to take behind the woodshed to deliver a stern lesson in Presidential power.
Just for the record, the 14th Amendment states, “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.”
President Trump claims the 14th Amendment applies only to “slave babies,” but I see no mention of anything other than “all persons,” without any other requirement as to who those “persons” might be.