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Trump can’t shut down birthright citizenship, appeals court rules

www.independent.co.uk Trump can’t shut down birthright citizenship, appeals court rules

Future of birthright citizenship could now be decided by Supreme Court

Summary

A U.S. appeals court has blocked Donald Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship for children of non-citizen parents.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s emergency stay request, upholding a lower court's nationwide injunction.

The ruling, made by a three-judge panel, argued that citizenship rights under the 14th Amendment are beyond presidential authority to alter.

The Justice Department is appealing similar rulings in other states, and the case may ultimately reach the Supreme Court. Arguments in the 9th Circuit case are set for June.

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"That's what the WOKE JUDGES say, but WE ALL KNOW they're not Americans!"
Yes, I threw up in my mouth a little bit having to come up with that. But the fact is that they can just ignore the courts and the Constitution, because who's going to stop them? The Department of Justice?
It's going to have to be you. And me. And our friends, family, neighbors. We're on the fourth box, and making use of it will entail conflicts far worse than this country has previously experienced.
- Edit: By downvoting me you are advocating for violence.
  I think it's too soon to say we're on the fourth box already. Let's wait until SCOTUS and the impeachment in Congress fail.
  
  i don't advocate for violence but we should surely do more than wait for the coming failure
  
  The SCOTUS that ruled that this sitting president cannot be criminally charged for anything he does while in office, as long as it's an "official act"? This president who recently echoed Napoleon and Nixon with "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law"? Who sits in the White House that repeated his "LONG LIVE THE KING" statement with a picture of him as a king?
  Or did I miss a /s on your comment?
  
  You're literally advocating for a civil war, and used the "four boxes" analogy. We haven't finished with the first three boxes yet.
  
  You could have saved a lot of typing by just saying "Nuh uh."
  
  You have to stop waiting, waiting is how you ended up like that.
  
  You first, friend. Lock and load, am I right?
  Or... we could actually exhaust legal avenues before we start shooting.
  
  For the record, I wasn't advocating a civil war. I was predicting one.
  Give me a reason to think this will end any other way.
  
  I imagine going to a foreign country and attempting to start some kind of insurrection would probably cause more problems than it would solve tbh. I'm just concerned that legal action won't be fast or effective enough to stop things getting much worse. Though blowing things up (literally and otherwise) will probably just speed everything up, good and bad.
  
  It's difficult to let the judicial system move through its processes so slowly, but I agree with this comment. If the people decide to invalidate the courts by taking matters into their own hands, then they are no better than those who seek to defy the courts. If you believe in democracy then you must also have some faith in the courts, no? That's not to say the courts won't fail, but circumventing them prematurely would be, as I see it, a definitive loss for the people.
  
  It’s difficult to let the judicial system move through its processes so slowly
  4+ years of waiting for Garland to do fucking something, and you suggest we wait longer?! So, the time for action is right after the noose is around or necks..?
  
  Have you ehm, seen what the courts have done lately?
  Rule of law in the USA is over

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