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In less than one week time, Trump has done more damage to the United States, than any other president in history. Some of the people still supporting this man, obviously need the equivalent of de-Nazifacation. Even Hitler had the good sense to wait for half a year to withdraw from the League of Nations, and five years to threaten another nations sovereignty (Austria)

On a simplistic level yes the Court could unilaterally declare that "persons" in the Constitution only means those with green eyes and a Hapsburg jaw. Realistically though there is such a thing as a strong and a weak precedent. Firearm precedents have long been and continue to be weak. Citizenship precidents are very strong. The Court has very few enforcement mechanisms, so they rely on a veneer of trust, consistency, and institutional impartiality to the law. Incrementally shifting the interpretation of grey areas in the 2nd Amended took place over decades and culminated in DC v Heller (2008). However, the 14th Amendment lacks the grey area open to interpretation and there is no prior case law on which to build a new judicial priniciple on citizenship or jurisdiction. Doing so would have to be out of nowhere. And would be a major strike against the Courts credibility and prestige, and would produce a weak precident easily overturned by a furure Court.

It's true. They've been systematically undone by a movement that does not believe in democracy or the institutions that preserve it. And a disengaged public voted for it.

The Green Revolution isn’t going to stop because Trump doesn’t like it. If he withdraws government support he only harms American manufacturers. He helps China if he does that.

Climate cataclysm is supposed to destroy us in 7 years, so who cares?

Oh, jeebus. Mark Levin is a certified arsehole, but he's not a constitutional scholar. And he's marketing insanity at you--apparently successfully. And my goodness, imagine how farking stupid someone would have to be to declare that undocumented immigrants are not subject to the jurisdiction of federal and state governments--the equivalent of diplomatic immunity. Good luck arresting them. They can try to amend the constitution, but the way it's currently written is clear and has been supported by binding precedent. Trying to invent a convenient, novel reading for it now is dishonest and desperate. -- And this from the same people dishonestly lionizing constitutional originalism and literalism. Oy.

They believe very much in the power of their pocket. My next reelection, the most important issue of them all. Affordable medications, who needs that seriously? Big buck in politics is the undoing of the great democracy.

Their vaunted constitution and checks and balances were all an illusion because they have stopped believing in them.

It would be some extreme activism indeed. Nobody anywhere actually believes the meaning is unclear--because it isn't. And the precedent at the SCOTUS level is also very clear. This specious "legal theory" is as absurd as the coup memo. Even the people promoting it don't believe it. They just hope they have enough shameless ideologues in the right places to get away with it. Once, I would have said that even this corrupt and compromised court couldn't go that far, but every time I think that, they stoop lower.

^This is how Trump does business. Take as much as he can, and give as little as possible in return. Don't care about pissing off "allies." Russia and China will be pleased.

You see her true colours shining through and that's why she loves you...♫

the extra judicial Declaration of Independence & Emancipation Proclamation FTW Onward Christian Soldiers

The second amendment is plain english to but you all constantly try to regulate it

Most developed economies have been in demographic decline for years. Some like South Korea and Japan will dramatically shrink in the decades to come. China's population started to decline in the last couple years and they have begun to strategize policies to encourage more births. The US is expected to hit its tipping point as early as the 2030s, a date which has been moved up serveral decades by more recent changes to birth rates. Birth rates in every continent except Africa have gotten close to 2 children per woman--even in most very poor and densely populated places like Bangladesh. So does a future of declining population and an increased percentage of elderly people concern you?

@Hodad See what I mean? But sometimes it's funny even vindicating to watch. Back in the day you'd be cancelled as an Islamofascist commie for talking like this around these parts. 🤣

The undocumented are a net economic positive, but we'd be better off resolving the immigration pressure with comprehensive immigration reform. Unfortunately, Trump felt that having the issue was better for him than finding a solution for Americans and a bipartisan bill went up in smoke.

I've yet to see so much as a single MAGA hat amongst the thousands and thousands of visitors that visit my region...tens of thousands per day during the summer. I doubt there's even a single one to be found adorning the head of our forum's Trump supporters.

Trump cult is awful quiet.

A deafening silence of the Democrat establishment on aggressive escapades of the new Commander in Chief in Greenland and Panama is a troubling and disappointing sign of a total and accomplished collapse of the integrity and morality in the entire political system. They'd rather pretend that nothing is happening than risk uttering a word of truth. Any and all self-serving calculations and machinations will misfire terribly: history tells us that very clearly. These things need to be resisted upfront, immediately and decisively. Other options: plain corrupt; or complicit. That's just too bad for America. Where could the path back to normality be? Who will walk it?

Jeebus, dude, he's a pundit. A constitutional scholar is an academic occupation with a primary output being rigorous scholarly publishing. This is roughly like scientific research publishing in peer reviewed journals. It's not for dilettantes. And his legal career is thin. I am deeply skeptical that he's argued cases before the SCOTUS. I suspect you made that up. Gonna need a citation there.

Your benefactors Russia and China will be pleased with your celebration of the destruction of America. 🤮

No 'free stuff'? So who is paying for them to stay in the migrant hotels? Who pays for their food? Clothing? https://nypost.com/2024/10/09/us-news/nyc-seeking-14000-hotel-rooms-to-shelter-migrants-through-2025/ You're making it sound like all of them are working and not in need of benefits. No doubt many of them are working, and helping to keep wages for Americans low.

He doesn't have copies. He has the real thing. Well, he did until he donated it. He has written at least six books about constitutional issues. He's presented cases to the SCOTUS. So, who are you to say he's not a Constitutional scholar?

Lol...just wait until the triumph wears off and the long slow grind reasserts itself. Then what will you do?

Fixed your post, but i'm afraid fixing you would require a team of psychologists and a research grant

Triumph usually wears off pretty fast in politics. Trump might get half a term under his belt before this starts up in reaction to the lack of progress and tangible benefits his supporters expect. I'm betting the galvanizing event that triggers the impatience and violence will follow a standoff between ICE and local officials in a sanctuary city/state.

If Trump and his inner circle have no qualms about cutting off established medical aid and other life saving aid that could negatively affect millions of children in the third world, what might he do to his closest ally, Canada, in the coming weeks? Taking a hostile attitude to Trump in response to his 25% tariffs could provoke worse. I think Canada should really think carefully how it handles this guy. He is unpredictable and irrational.

No, the entitlement programs we have built that have been abused and designed to fail, concern me. But if we are so concerned about population, it might help if we stopped celebrating being a culture of death where we kill almost 1 million unborn babies a year.

Meh...I apologize if I stomped on your "debate" but, the sh1t I read from so many Libbies is seriously venomous. Ugly. Sick. How DARE society recognize masochistic leadership. Anyway...sorry...

Well boys...as you Libbies have said... Elections do have consequences. Stock up on tissue if you need to...and buckle up.

Diplomats wouldn't be the way it gets justified. If it gets justified it will be because the illegal aliens are declared foreign invaders. Foreign invaders would not be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. That is a stretch to call them foreign invaders. The best way to do what Trump is doing is to amend the 14th to specifically include illegal aliens. The next best way would be to pass a bill. The EO is a short cut. It may work, it may not. We will see. I'm skeptical it will work. Mark Levin (constitutional scholar) had this to say: Mark has forgetten far more than you and I know about the Constitution, combined. But read what he said very carefully. He says under article 1, section 8, it is congress that has to make immigration rules. Again, I don't think the EO will hold up. A bill could hold up. But the most effective action would be an amendment to the amendment.

American politics have been corrupt for a long time, but they've gotten much worse since their Supreme Court abandoned any pretense of protecting ordinary people and went all in on the idea that any restrictions on what people can spend on elections, or how much can be donated is somehow 'unconstitutional'. If American democracy dies it will be aided and abetted by an eager Supreme Court that shrugs off gerrymandering and other efforts at denying people a legitimate vote. Like ensuring people in the opposition areas have to line up for hours in the sun - even passing laws against giving them water (!) while areas where the governing party holds the majority have plenty of polls so they can walk in and out quickly. "Sounds fine to us!" says the Supreme Court. But honestly, America has been a kind of a phony democracy for decades. Studies done by academics have shown over the years that what the American government does bears no correlation to what the polls of the time said the people wanted. The American government does what the rich campaign doners want, not what the people want.

Yeah ok. 🙄 As always, thanks for participating.

I didn't think it would take long before they would get the stupidest of the stupid saying that selling out Canada to fascism is patriotic.

Exactly. When one partner understand the word as "I can get my way any time" what would be the point? Better to look for more reliable and meaningful relationships.

Forget about amelioration - we’ll never sort that out here. Let’s concentrate on adaptation which we will all have to do sooner or later. From homeowners to neighbourhoods to municipalities and up, we have to start fireproofing our homes and making them less liable to wind and flooding. This process begins with each of us.

Hardly. The 2nd amendment is unclear compared to the first sentence of the 14th Amendment. Otherwise I think we would have seen some clever legal rationale by now casting doubt about some part of this very simple sentence. So far the right wing argument made in this thread is that the meaning of this portion of the 14th Amendment should just be deliberately altered via activist justices on the Court. Winning!

Bird flu hit BC hard costing 5 million hens and it immediately was followed by a recall of 8 brands of eggs. But unlike in the USA following a couple days of empty shelves they're still selling for the equivalent of about $3.50 USD per dozen. OMG we were denied the freedumb to pay $12.99 !!!

Well that's the problem with backlash. When you go way too far one way to the point of idiocy and try and force people to do things your way constantly, when there is eventually a backlash and uprising against your totalitarian antics they tend to go too far the other way. Enjoy the world which you have wrought.

Pipeline intrusion detection is a fiber optic cable "listening" to sound. It is probably more in line with what submariners do than any other process. At a military max performance level, I expect they could clearly hear footsteps and many more things and identify what and maybe who the signature fit. When you say "nukes" I assume you mean dirty bombs, but there are (at least where when my Father instructed on them) battlefield nukes that could indeed fit in a man sized tunnel. Let's hope they never get hold of such a thing.

Your point? The law is what it is.

And it applies to children of immigrants, documented or undocumented. Cope and seethe. Lol the Constitution is the supreme law of the land you mongrel so you've got that backasswards.

Bless their hearts. I love the poorly educated.

Why? Birthright citizenship only applies to people born in a place. Hence the "birth" part.

Except people born in the U.S.A are subject to the United States' jurisdiction. Dang old no eyebrows there didn't think of that, did she? Sure the written text is clear and unambiguous but have you also considered that the last 125 years of judicial precedent also supports birthright citizenship? Checkmate lib.

It is always greener on the other side of the fence Europe is not the golden goose you may think it is, they have their problems as well, for years they to have been ruled by the left, we are now seeing more governments that are on the right or even far right, not everything is rainbows and unicorns in Europe...UK left for a reason... US is our allied, and is doing Canada a huge favor by forcing us to get our sh!t together, and start taking our global responsibilities seriously... Seeing how we have not responded to the polite poking from past Presidents and other NATO allied nations have been doing for decades...We have taken advantage of them for decades, and enjoyed giving them the finger or just ignoring them when it benefits us.... Now Canadians are pissed they don't have a choice, we have been given a time out...fix it or they will destroy our economy....And instead of listening to what the US is saying coming up with a plan to fix it, we are preparing to do battle with the world's largest economy thumping our chests...think we are going to win this hands down...tit for tat...Your a ****** if you think we are going going to win this, unscathed...we are the Ant in this battle fighting the elephant...

Giving up certainly won't prevent it..

Promises given, promises kept. I feel envious. This apparently creates about 100,000 jobs at the start! INVESTORS and JOBS! Stargate AI infrastructure project President Trump announces the U.S. Stargate investment alongside three artificial intelligence industry leaders.

The West thinks this culture likes us. Haha, Jews first, then Westerners.

Because they can't contest any of it with even so much as a shred of validity they desperately scramble to instead try and make their pathetic retardation the issue ...take notice. Blown wide open.