Witnessing the total destruction of the Democratic Party and all of the tentacles it has spread throughout the political apparatus of this country has to be one of the most satisfying experiences of the last few years. President Donald Trump got a big win from the Supreme Court last Friday, which ruled to unblock his executive order concerning birthright citizenship.
And that decision really got under the skin of New York Attorney General Letitia James who claimed she was disappointed by the direction of SCOTUS on the issue. If that doesn’t slap a smile on your face in the middle of Monday, what will?
“Every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen of this country, no matter which state they are born in. This has been the law of the land for more than a century,” the attorney general said of the ruling. She called it a “profound and disappointing setback for the families who now face tremendous uncertainty and danger, for the millions of people who rely on the courts to protect their constitutional rights, and for the fundamental rule of law.”
SCOTUS’ ruling on the “Trump v. CASA” case weighed whether federal courts in different districts legally possessed the power to issue “universal injunctions” that would keep government policies from being enforced. As in enforced at all.
The decision stated that broad injunctions, “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts” due to the injunction applying to all, not jsut those named in the lawsuit.
Check out the details from ABC News10:
SCOTUS sent the issue back to lower courts, telling them to narrow their orders to only protect the plaintiffs who sued. That means the executive order on birthright citizenship would apply to anyone not named as a plaintiff in the lawsuit. It tells federal agencies not to issue or accept citizenship documents for—or consider as citizens—any child born in the U.S. after February 19, provided their mother was in the U.S. unlawfully or temporarily and their father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
New York and 18 other states—along with the District of Columbia and San Francisco—sued Trump over the order on January 21. On February 13, a court granted their request for a preliminary injunction, which a federal appeals court later upheld. It stopped the order, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” from taking effect nationwide.
Opponents claimed that the order violated both the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, dating back to 1866, and Section 201 of the Nationality Act of 1940. According to the Citizenship Clause, “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.” SCOTUS has held since 1898 in “U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark” that this clause makes nearly everyone born on U.S. soil a citizen regardless of parental immigration status.
The dissenting opinion was written by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayer who said, “No right is safe in the new legal regime this Court creates.” Sotomayer continued, saying the ruling “cuts at the root of the 14th Amendment, and threatens to send us back to a free state/slave status quo.”
Is it just me or is the left in this country obsessed with racism and slavery? Of course, racism does exist, on the individual level, and while we should fight against that on the battlefield of ideas, we need to quit stuffing it into every conversation about the issues facing the country.
The issue of birthright citizenship is one of national security. With it in existence, we are incentivizing illegal immigration, rewarding people for breaking our laws. If we want to remain a sovereign nation, that must not continue.
The original AG complaint argued that New York’s Child Health Plus program, which provides healthcare coverage regardless of immigration status, would be financially impacted. It said that thousands of babies born in New York would only qualify for the state-funded program, losing of millions of dollars in federal funding.
Brooklyn-based Popular Democracy issued a statement on the high court decision that “greenlighted Trump to run roughshod over a critical constitutional right.” It “takes away the power of lower courts to block unconstitutional moves from the government on a federal level—allowing the government to act with impunity and apply law inconsistently across the country,” according to co-executive directors Analilia Mejia and DaMareo Cooper. They warned, “It effectively extends a blank check for the government to begin stripping people of citizenship, detaining, and deporting people, while the judicial system plays catch-up.”
Jumaane Williams, NYC Public Advocate was in agreement, saying, “By sidestepping the issues of birthright citizenship itself, while limiting the ability of lower courts to prevent this and other assaults on the Constitution and the rights it bestows, we are opening the door even further to authoritarian impulses.”
James also stated that her office, along with a number of other attorneys general, will continue to defend the Constitution and the common values that unite us,” which seems to suggest more legal action will be taken in the future.
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