QOTD -- Who Gets To Be A Citizen

 

"... These newest Trump’s executive orders are little more than a performative stunt, a smack back from a narcissist who doesn’t like to be told no, even by the nation’s highest Court, which usually tells him yes. The EO’s seem unlikely to find much love from the lower courts, given the precedent from Barbara that they are obligated to apply. But we do live in the era of the unitary executive and a Supreme Court that panders to that theory, and sometimes to its current personification. So we will watch; we will see how the administration tries to implement its new policies and how the courts respond.

"The issue of who gets to be a citizen is too important to be left to the whims of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller. This whole sordid affair exemplifies why we have laws and why it’s important to be a rule of law country. Trump is trying to change the rules that determine who can be an American to suit his own whims. That’s not how a democracy works. We believe in justice and fairness, not kings. No kings. Not on this issue or any other..." -- Joyce Vance, writing in her "Civil Discourse" Substack on the latest attempt by the Malignant Fascist to rewrite the Constitution's 14th Amendment birthright citizenship language via Executive Order.  No American who believes in the Constitution, and embraces the moral arc that's been running slowly, painfully through our history until the MF showed up, would ever want the likes of him and that ghoul Stephen "Pee Wee Goebbels" Miller deciding who is a citizen.  That's yet another issue that remains to be answered this November, along with whether we remain a democracy or not.