QOTD -- "Lessons Of History"

 

"... Our nation's history of efforts to restrict birthright citizenship -- from Dred Scott in the decade before the Civil War to the attempted justification for the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act in Wong Kim Ark -- has not been a proud one. Indeed, those efforts each have been rejected, once by the people through constitutional amendment in 1868 and once by the Court relying on that same amendment three decades later, and at a time when tensions over immigration also were high.  [snip]

"The 'lessons of history' thus give us every reason to be wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact of being born in the United States..." --  First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the Malignant Fascist's racist attempt to overturn 157 years of jurisprudence and deny birthright citizenship to people born in the United States regardless of their immigration status.  This follows a similar ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in July.  The Malignant Fascist's rubber stamps at the corrupt, illegitimate Republican Supreme Court await.