Fourteenth Amendment:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
…I feel like the lede’s being buried here; are these crackers really talking about tryna denaturalize people born here??? Oh my god please denaturalize me so I don’t have to pay the exit taxes.
Here’s a more complete screenshot of the original showing the footnotes on the page:
The article being referenced in note 4 is https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol107/iss4/3/. The argument being made is:
That said, given the news about deportation going around, a judge in SCOTUS that had previously questioned the legitimacy of the 14th Amendment could be a problem…
What i don’t get about this whole though… like if someone is born here, and their parents wer both born here. How do you revoke their citizenship and deport them. Where to? Nearest available non American born ancestors? My great grandmother is German. Would they deport me to Germany? How would any other country react to people being deported there with no ties to that country?
What i do get is they’re going to have to set up some sort of internment camp to put all of these reporters while they sort out those details…
How would any other country react to people being deported there with no ties to that country?
the same thing the empire does to other refugees it creates: criminalize → incarcerate → kill
I’ll be in the cold hard ground before I recognise missourah
The Supreme Clerics of America divine truth from our holy text, it’s says, be more racist.
That’s not the 14th amendment, you’re thinking of the 13th. The 14th amendment gives equal protection and birthright citizenship, and the latter sections are all about how the US doesn’t owe any confederate debts nor can ex-confederates hold federal office.
It’s far worse. IMHO it would have the most far-reaching consequences of any amendment if repealed. Section 1 alone would overturn a massive amount of case law.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
In addition to the obvious part that it would be perfectly legal to arbitrarily revoke citizenship, discriminate, etc., the due process clause as it applies to the states (the one in the Fifth Amendment applies to feds only) is out the window. For instance, states and private entities are now free to violate any of the Bill of Rights because there’s no incorporation doctrine to push back against Barron v. Baltimore (1833).
This is the medium domino in the chain that leads to the full cardinality of Virginia.
