From a Little Birdie on Trump winning the birthright citizenship battle at the Supreme Court (where this will ultimately go)
x.com ^ | January 21, 2025 | Steve Deace
Posted on 01/22/2025 7:19:54 AM PST by mbrfl
From a Little Birdie on Trump winning the birthright citizenship battle at the Supreme Court (where this will ultimately go):
"The best argument is that a president has power to end birthright citizenship if its an invasion. Whoever on Trump's team that crafted his EO appears to be following an opinion from Federal Judge Jim Ho making that case (or what we call in my legal circles "The Ho Invasion Theory"). I'm not sure even Clarence Thomas agrees yet with ending birthright citizenship whole cloth. But I do think more judges would be willing to sign on to ending it under the guise of a president stopping an invasion as opposed to a governor like when Texas tried this. Because presidents have wide constitutional latitude when it comes to matters of national defense, and these illegal aliens are causing enough harm to be treated as enemy combatants. Or at the very least this level of invasion has the potential to. And most agree that so-called birthright citizenship does not apply to enemy combatants."
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthright; immigration; scotus; trump
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1 posted on 01/22/2025 7:19:54 AM PST by mbrfl
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