>>22131995

https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1865817012334710961

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@MeetThePress

omits six words about birthright citizenship from the 14th Amendment

The omitted text is set off by asterisks:

“All persons born … in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, shall be citizens of the United States”

Those words matter

1. Congress has the power to define what it means to be born in the United States “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

1. While current law contains no such restriction, Congress could pass a law defining what it means to be born in the United States “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” excluding prospectively from birthright citizenship individuals born in the U.S. to illegal aliens.

1. This is an idea that has attracted lawmakers of both political parties.

>>22132006

1. In fact, one of the first bills (at least in recent memory) that attempted to impose statutory limits on automatic birthright citizenship was introduced in 1993 by then-Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat, who later became the Democrats’ leader in the Senate.

1. Senator Reid’s bill was called the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993. Title X of that bill would have limited automatic birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to mothers who were either U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents at the time.

>>22132012

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1865817012334710961.html

1. The fact that federal law doesn’t currently impose such a restriction doesn’t mean that it couldn’t, and that’s why Senator Harry Reid proposed that change.

1. Nothing in the Fourteenth Amendment limits Congress’s ability to enact legislation limiting birthright citizenship along the lines of what Senator Harry Reid proposed in 1993.

1. Those who suggest Congress is somehow powerless to limit birthright citizenship ignore important constitutional text giving Congress power define who among those “born in the United States” is born “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

1. It bothers me that @MeetThePress, long revered as America’s leading Sunday political news program, has become so one-sided.

@MeetThePress 11. In this instance, @MeetThePress seems to try to render a debatable matter beyond debate by selectively omitting key words from the Constitution, making it appear incorrectly that the Fourteenth Amendment proscribes any and all restrictions on birthright citizenship.

@MeetThePress 12. Please follow if you’d like to see more posts like this one.

@BasedMikeLee U.S. Senator for Utah

Mar 9 2018 02:41:10 (EST)

When we’re done he’ll claim Kenyancitizenshipas a way to escape.

Q894

'' Trump says he plans to END birthright citizenship on day one. ''

"We're the only country that has it. We're going to end that because it's ridiculous."

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1865795110048604601

From Trump War Room 11:26 AM · Dec 8, 2024 ·2.3M Views

We live in a constitutional Republic, not a direct democracy.

I favor ending birthright citizenship for those whose parents entered the country illegally because we shouldn’t reward those who violate the law with the intent of exploiting the citizenship rules.

That’s not what our Founding Fathers envisioned.

Further, no one born in this country - whether 1st generation or 5th generation - should automatically inherit the full privileges of citizenship until they earn those privileges: every 18-year-old should have to pass the same civics test required of naturalized citizens, or else serve the country for 6 months in a military or first responder role, before earning the full privileges of citizenship.

As our Founding Fathers envisioned, we must have skin in the game to play in the game: civic privileges come with civic duties attached.

That’s not “extreme,” that’s just what it means to be a true citizen of a Republic.

I favor amending the Constitution accordingly.

https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1677296020860829696

Damascus, one of the cradles of civilization, has been taken over by a gang of Salafi-jihadi head-choppers supported by CIA/MI6/Tel Aviv/Turkish intel and "normalized" by the usual suspects.

The very essence of barbarism is on a roll.

12:15 PM · Dec 8, 2024

·https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1865807478308401631

Just a refresher re Christopher Wray – I posted this a few times way back during Trump's first term.

Yes, Wray was a Federal Society attorney who served in the first term of the Bush Admin. Before coming to DC, he was an AUSA for 3-4 years in the NDGA, Atlanta Office.

Everyone remembers Sally Yates right? At the end of Obama's second term, Yates had risen to Deputy Attorney General to Loretta Lynch, the No. 2 position in DOJ. She was the Acting AG after Lynch resigned just prior to Trump's inauguration. She became famous for saying DOJ would not enforce any Trump policies she thought were illegal such as the "Muslim Travel Ban" as it was called. She was fired for insubordination a day or two after making that statement.

Yates got to be DAG after a stint as the Obama Appointed US Attorney in ….. NDGA.

When Wray first joined that office in the late 1990s, Yates was a Supervisor in the Section he was assigned. Wray's very first criminal jury trial was as "second chair" in a case where Yates was lead counsel.

Wray and Yates have known each other for 25 years.

But there is more.

Wray left DOJ in 2005 because his wife who he met in law school was originally from Atlanta and that's where she wanted to raise their family. So Wray after being promoted up to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division accepted a partnership with Atlanta's largest law firm, King & Spaulding. He remained there as a partner from 2005 to 2017 when he was named Director of the FBI by Trump.

Sally Yates was fired in Jan. 2017 by Trump.

Where did she go? To King & Spaulding where she was made a partner.

Wray is a conservative and he is a Republican.

But his backstory is very similar to most of the NeverTrumpers that have a history in DOJ.

11:03 AM · Dec 8, 2024

https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1865789227692142915

>>22132240

>Just a refresher re: Christopher Wray

''and Sally Yates''