Trump posted this today... I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP The Great Communist Party of China
a so-called American willfully ignorant of US history. Ever heard of the Dred Scott v Sanford decision? The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, was a direct constitutional response to the Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision
Yes, one politician that people are spellbound by told him that he should care about it, and now it's suddenly a big deal to him. Similar to transgender bathroom laws. The rules the GOP thinks are destroying the country were standard in every state all through the 1900s and early 2000s until the GOP told people to care. That led to North Carolina's bathroom bill, and suddenly the the entire GOP is outraged by something they had no problems with for generations. Basically, the GOP has turned their followers into lemmings who don't actually think for themselves.
If it chaps your ass, amend the constitution. If we're just all going to consider the constitution optional, I don't want to hear **** when the next Democratic president arbitrarily decides "times have changed in the last 150 years" and the second amendment is just a suggestion and confiscates every gun in america and then puts every MAGAt in jail for hate speech. You don't get to pick and choose when the Constitution actually matters and when its just a vague suggestion. Its an all or nothing proposition. Either the Constitution matters or we throw the entire f**king thing out the window and anything goes. I promise, you MAGA wouldn't like how option "B" would work out for you.
All this conservative bellyaching is really rich. The constitution is crystal ****ing clear about birthright citizenship. You do not care about the rule of law, only your ideology and the power to wield it.
I am originalist except when I don't like what they wrote. Then I am ardent living constitutionalist.
