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re: What's the argument FOR birthright citizenship?

Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:43 pm to
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:43 pm to
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Where was this logic when Roberts voted against tariffs that were already collected?


That was hate for the love of the game.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
140759 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:44 pm to
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Do the shifts in understanding govern the interpretation of the law?
Question: When is a fee (specifically designated by Congress as not being a tax) actually a "tax"?

Answer: When John Roberts interprets it that way.

Posted by jimmy the leg
Member since Aug 2007
45294 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:47 pm to
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you could make that same argument for gun ownership in 2026. sure the normal person needed a gun in 1778 people don't need them now.


So what is your plan Mr. Goose-stepper? Confiscation?

You leftists are all the same…
Confiscation
Subjugation
Elimination

Communazis is truly an appropriate term.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 12:52 pm
Posted by lionward2014
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2015
14519 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:48 pm to
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I asked a question. You avoided it. I'll ask it again. What is the premise of the constitutional requirement for natural born citizenship in Article II?


Sure, to avoid dual allegiances.

Now answer mine, how is it a contradiction or relevant?

The Constitution sets the baseline to be POTUS, and as long as Congress doesn't set any other requirements that violate the Constitution there is nothing stopping them from adding requirements. That is a political policy question though, not a matter of constitutional interpretation.
Posted by Ingeniero
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2013
23560 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:48 pm to
What the tweets from @_TheMAGAkrakenAwakens1776_ fail to point out is that the quote from Senator Howard was simply a part of the floor debate during the writing of the 14th amendment. The majority opinion even points out that Howard's stance is directly and explicitly refuted multiple times throughout the floor debate, which is why the language is written as we see it today.

Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
481186 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:49 pm to
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What is the premise of the constitutional requirement for natural born citizenship in Article II?


How do we just the Constitution:

1. The actual text
2. The premise

?
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
481186 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:49 pm to
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What the tweets from @_TheMAGAkrakenAwakens1776_ fail to point out is that the quote from Senator Howard was simply a part of the floor debate during the writing of the 14th amendment. The majority opinion even points out that Howard's stance is directly and explicitly refuted multiple times throughout the floor debate, which is why the language is written as we see it today.


Yes. It's such a silly argument.
Posted by jimmy the leg
Member since Aug 2007
45294 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:49 pm to
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I dont think TBoy believes in any of this BS


Low-t is a true believer.

I feel quite confident that he would press the button to deliver the gas if a “non-believer “ were in the chamber.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 12:50 pm
Posted by jimmy the leg
Member since Aug 2007
45294 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:56 pm to
I would suggest that a Commie citizen being imported to become president is a national security matter.

Then again, I’m no leftist.

I have stated repeatedly in the past that China doesn’t work in 4 and 8 year increments.

This decision gives them a pathway to take over down the road.
Posted by boogiewoogie1978
Little Rock
Member since Aug 2012
20451 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 12:58 pm to
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What's the argument FOR birthright citizenship?

If we had a secure closed border it would make sense.
Posted by lionward2014
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2015
14519 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:49 pm to
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I would suggest that a Commie citizen being imported to become president is a national security matter.

Then again, I’m no leftist.

I have stated repeatedly in the past that China doesn’t work in 4 and 8 year increments.

This decision gives them a pathway to take over down the road.


2 things.

1) SCOTUS's job isn't to legislate from the bench.
2) This isn't some recent development, especially in regards to China. Cite to 1 example in the last 160 years where a person who is a only a citizen because of birthright citizenship has risen to power in the US. The best example I can think of is Marco Rubio.
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
48304 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:58 pm to
you could have made an argument for it hundreds of years ago, as colonized European settlements were in dire need of people, which is likely why you only see a handful of nations practicing this today - virtually all of them in the "new world".
Posted by Easy
Los Angeles
Member since Dec 2008
5837 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:59 pm to
Birthright citizenship made some sense when most immigrants arrived by ship to a country that wasn’t always keen on respecting the rights of everyone born here.

It makes much less sense now that people fly here for birth vacations or walk across the border so that their kids can get free American schooling and healthcare.

But it’s in the Constitution and there’s a process to change the Constitution.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
140759 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:02 pm to
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How do we just the Constitution:

1. The actual text
2. The premise

?
Obviously, the latter, else we'd never have changed the meaning of jurisdiction.

One could argue in behalf of the Ark ruling that Ark's family was here legally, with full knowledge of the United States, fully participating in the above board economy, and perhaps with the intention to stay here permanently at the time of Ark's birth. Such a position might fall within the scope of jurisdiction in its original intent.

Whereas a birth tourist in no way does. Nor does birth to an illegal alien loyal to her originating country, but taking advantage of lax US law-enforcement, an open border, and a better economy.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 2:13 pm
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:04 pm to
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Sure, to avoid dual allegiances.

Now answer mine, how is it a contradiction or relevant?

Given today's ruling, Article II is now undercut so as to no longer avoid dual alliances. Simple as that.
Posted by lionward2014
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2015
14519 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:27 pm to
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Given today's ruling, Article II is now undercut so as to no longer avoid dual alliances. Simple as that.


Today's ruling didn't change anything that has been happening for 160 years though. Again, Congress can, and should, restrict dual nationals from holding elected office. Pretty sure one of the reps from Ohio already proposed a bill for it.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
140759 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:31 pm to
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Today's ruling didn't change anything that has been happening for 160 years though
Change? No it didn't change anything. It codified it. Until recently, birth tourism was not a thing. It is now, and Roberts & Co clarified it as perfectly legal. Authors of the 14th amendment would vomit.
Posted by UtahCajun
Member since Jul 2021
7182 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:32 pm to
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 sure the normal person needed a gun in 1778 people don't need them now.

Please tell me what reason did the normal person need a firearm in 1778 that does not exist today?
Posted by lionward2014
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2015
14519 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 2:38 pm to
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It codified it


That's silly, SCOTUS isn't Congress, they can't codify anything.

quote:

Until recently, birth tourism was not a thing. It is now,


There are news articles from the late 1980's talking about it. That is 40 years. Give an example of one of these people winning an election for a federal office.

I'm more concerned about idiot Democrat congressmen sleeping with Chinese spies than I am currently with the CCP having some huge master plan to overthrow the US government with a bunch of birthright citizens.
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
16146 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:15 pm to
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For those that are born here, this is their homeland, and the only homeland they know.


Except for the hundreds of thousands of foreign birth tourism babies that are born here ever year now, and then they're taken back to China and other countries... but get to enjoy perks of American "citizenship" when it benefits them... or their true country's political agenda.

Other than that... Sure.
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