Lewzer team’s plans to try to end birthright citizenship

Sunday, December 22, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump's team is assessing multiple options to fulfill his long-promised pledge to end birthright citizenship, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, teeing up a legal fight with the expectation that the Supreme Court would ultimately have to rule on the matter. Trump has railed against birthright citizenship, which is protected by the 14th Amendment, for years and suggested he'd use executive action to ban it.

Posted by REDIAL at 06:26 PM | 2 COMMENTS | permalink

"We're gonna have to get it changed, or maybe I would go back to the people, but we have to end it. We're the only country that has it," Trump told NBC's Kristen Welker, echoing a false statement he's made in the past. "If we can, through executive action. I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix Covid first, to be honest with you."

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... Trump has railed against birthright citizenship, which is protected by the 14th Amendment, for years and suggested he'd use executive action to ban it. ...

Can the Executive branch override the Constitution via Executive actions?

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-22 08:35 PM

@#1

Oh, wait ...

Trump Claims Constitution Invalid Because It Was Signed by Dead People (2021)
www.newyorker.com

... Advancing a new conspiracy theory during a rally on Monday, Donald J. Trump claimed that the United States Constitution is invalid because it was signed by dead people.

"All we're hearing is, the Constitution this and the Constitution that," Trump said. "I'm telling you, as sure as you're sitting there, that every person who signed that piece of paper is dead."

Trump said that he had his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani investigate the signatories to the Constitution, "and he found a scandal bigger than Hunter Biden's laptop." ...