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Several prominent elected Republicans with law backgrounds on Tuesday broke with President Trump on the Supreme Court’s ruling over birthright citizenship, arguing that a constitutional amendment would have to be passed to change this method of obtaining citizenship. The high court ruled 6-3 that the 14th Amendment automatically guarantees citizenship for nearly all children born…
Donald Trump claims to have a trick up his sleeve to upend birthright citizenship—though his plan to do so would most likely run afoul of the law.The president downplayed the Supreme Court decision Tuesday that killed his attempts to rewrite the Fourteenth Amendment, claiming that he and his allies could “easily make it up in Congress through Legislation.”“No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!” he wrote on Truth Social. “Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!”But that’s simply not true. Any attempt to change or alter birthright citizenship would require a constitutional amendment, since the right was enshrined in the Constitution in 1868 when Dred Scott was overturned and the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified.Accomplishing that would require a level of coordination and bipartisanship seemingly beyond the current Republican Party. A constitutional amendment requires a supermajority—two thirds of both the House and Senate—to pass. Alternatively, the issue could technically be put to a Constitutional Convention, though two thirds of states would need to support the motion to have one at all, and any proposed changes to an amendment would still require ratification by three fourths of the states.The president was still embittered by the ruling hours after it was read at the bench, writing in a separate post that he “would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN.”In another post, Trump went on to claim that while the Supreme Court’s birthright ruling was a “loss” for his second term agenda, he had actually won the “biggest and most consequential Decision” when they extended him (by a 6-3 margin) sweeping new authorities over some two dozen agencies that were originally intended to be independent. That included granting him the ability to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission, except in cases of “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”
Less than an hour after the Supreme Court dealt the Trump administration a devastating blow by rejecting its attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump began plotting a legislative workaround. On Truth Social, Trump wrote, “The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process.” He urged Congress to "start TODAY" on ending birthright citizenship, pledging his "Complete and Total Support." Birthright citizenship, enshrined in the 14th Amendment, grants full U.S. citizenship to all people born in the United States or its territories regardless of parental citizenship status. Trump, supported by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, has long targeted birthright citizenship as part of his immigration crackdown agenda, according to Bulwark Media. Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed the U.S. is the only country with such rights, despite dozens of nations, including Canada and Mexico, having identical protections, according to The Washington Post.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow Tuesday to the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, but less than an hour after the justices handed down their decision, President Donald Trump was already musing on how to sidestep the court’s ruling.“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.“No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!”Enshrined in the U.S. Constitution under the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship grants all people born in the United States or its territories full U.S. citizenship, regardless of their parents’ citizenship status. Trump, with the strong support of his White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, has long targeted birthright citizenship in an effort to see it overturned as part of his broader immigration crackdown agenda.In his attempts to argue on behalf of eliminating the constitutional right, Trump has falsely claimed on numerous occasions that the United States was the only country to enjoy such a right, despite dozens of countries having near-identical rights, including the United States’ neighbors Canada and Mexico.
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