I don’t understand why Trump wants to get rid of birthright citizenship.
Imo this is one of the core values that make America so great. The fact that everyone born on American soil is American feels like a natural law. This makes America feel way more open and free.
But if even people born in America will not be considered American than what type of country are we talking about? One that’s locked up for the elite?
Is there any way we can protect our constitution?
You don’t need to change the constitution if the Supreme Court is under your control.
SCOTUS cannot not affect constitutional law, and they can’t enact new laws. Their job is to interpret the law, and constitutional amendments are a basis of fact for that. For instance, they can’t call the 14th amendment “unconstitutional”, because it’s the actual constitution. Doing so would automatically invalidate other rulings and yadayadayada, but yeah, they can’t do that.
They can call violations of the constitution constitutional, and there’s nothing legally that can be done to stop them.
You’re making the mistake of thinking they’re going to play by the established rules, which is wrong. They’ve already ruled that the president is a king.
Do you think the Constitution is a magical, sentient, self-enforcing document that has the ability to enforce its own rules?
It’s a really old piece of paper. It relies on our three branches of government being willing to uphold the laws and principles written on it. If the three branches of government are no longer willing to uphold those principles, then the Constitution is effectively about as binding as a child’s bedtime story. And right now, our three branches of government are largely unwilling to uphold the Constitution and have already hand-waved away many important protections already.
If Trump says “We’re going to ignore the 14th amendment”, and Congress passes a law that says “We’re going to ignore the 14th amendment”, and SCOTUS says “We’re going to ignore the 14th amendment”, then the 14th amendment may as well not exist. They don’t have to repeal it. They can just ignore it.
If you don’t believe that our government can and will just wave away Constitutional amendments when they become inconvenient, then remember that we just re-elected a former President who should have been disqualified until SCOTUS chimed in and said another part of the 14th amendment was already unenforceable. What do you think is stopping them from just chiming in and striking down the rest of it?
You can say that the 14th amendment is a thing all you’d like. But unless you have some method of actually enforcing it, it doesn’t matter.
You’re correct on the way things should work, but when the system is corrupt and broken, can one say “they can’t do that”? Resting on the very notion that everyone is following the same rules? Too many things have happened both lately and in the past that many dismissed before as, yeah, that won’t happen.
Just saying that while it would be wrong and illogical to declare something in the Constitution as unconstitutional, do not let them out of your sight for a second.
Oh my sweet summer child…