Margaret Belan

Retired Educator/#Writer of #Kidlit - #SCBWI /#Resister -- passionate about social justice and equity. ♥ Steelers!
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[Margaret Belan @FadingTeacher]

If we lose our democracy --- we lose e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g !
Do your homework! Look at all that has happened!
Then, #VoteBlueNoMatterWho

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨🚨🚨 Right now Virginia’s congressional map gives us a 6-5 Dem/Rep split. If we do nothing while other states gerrymander, we lose ground in 2026, 2028, AND 2030. Voting YES levels the playing field. Simple as that. #VirginiaVoteYes

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Agree or Disagree?

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation, but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history. https://t.co/OLa3mDrZI1

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Protesters in Hungary have flooded the streets in open defiance of Viktor Orbán and his ally Vladimir Putin demanding an end to creeping authoritarianism.

Mainstream media is barely touching it. Let’s make sure the world sees it.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

I'm getting sick of hearing Congress say "it's up to the American people to hold him accountable." No, it's not.

He threatened to wipe out an entire civilization.

We didn't swear an oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution.

You did.
DO YOUR JOBS.

#ImpeachandRemove

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Who the fuck gave this idiot a law degree?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

Well....the truth hurts a lot!

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

NATO is the most successful military alliance in history.

Congress will not sit by while this president tries to unravel it. Our commitment to NATO is ironclad, and we will use every tool available to defend it.

[Covie @covie_93]

If the 14th amendment was only meant to protect the “babies of slaves” then the 2nd Amendment is only meant to protect the right to own a musket.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump’s birthright citizenship scheme implodes after lawyer’s JAW-DROPPING courtroom blunder about Native Americans.

Donald Trump sent his top lawyer to the Supreme Court to argue that birthright citizenship should be stripped from hundreds of thousands of American-born babies. It went so badly that his own solicitor general nearly argued Native Americans aren't citizens either — and had to be rescued by a Trump-appointed justice.

In one of the most jaw-dropping exchanges of Wednesday's already disastrous hearing, Justice Neil Gorsuch — appointed by Trump himself — pressed Solicitor General D. John Sauer on the logical consequences of the administration's own legal theory. The exchange was as stunning as it was revealing.

Gorsuch asked a simple question: under the administration's proposed test for birthright citizenship, are Native Americans born today automatically citizens?

Sauer's answer was a slow-motion legal train wreck. First, he said yes — obviously. Then Gorsuch pushed him to set aside the statutes granting Native Americans citizenship and answer based purely on the administration's own constitutional theory. Sauer's answer changed: "No." Under the 1868 congressional debates, he explained, children of tribal Indians were not considered birthright citizens.

The courtroom went quiet.

Gorsuch pressed harder. But under your test — the domicile test you want this court to adopt today — are tribal Native Americans born on U.S. soil birthright citizens?

Sauer fumbled. "I think so... I have to think that through, but that's my reaction."

"I'll take the yes," Gorsuch replied — essentially throwing the solicitor general a life preserver before he could drown any further.

Let's be absolutely clear about what just happened. The Trump administration walked into the highest court in the land with a legal theory so sweeping, so poorly thought through, that when a justice applied it logically, the government's own lawyer couldn't guarantee that Native Americans — people whose nations existed on this continent thousands of years before the United States did — would qualify as birthright citizens.

This is the constitutional chaos that Trump's executive order invites. Once you start unraveling the 14th Amendment's guarantee that all persons born on American soil are citizens, there is no clean stopping point. The administration's own lawyer proved that in real time, in front of the entire nation, while Trump was still in the building — before he turned tail and fled.

The 14th Amendment was written to be clear precisely because America had already lived through the horror of deciding that some people born here weren't really citizens. The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship for 157 years.

And Trump's lawyer just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, exactly why those 157 years of precedent exist.

Please like and share this post if you believe the Constitution means what it says — for everyone born on American soil.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

BREAKING — Effort launches to remove Trump’s name from ALL federal property, monuments, and currency.

https://t.co/ohPPT5nSV2

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Can we get this video of the #NoKings marches tweeted 1000 times??

Let’s show the world that America says NO to Trump!

[A @bluhue123]

Raise Your Hand ✋ If You AGREE

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Thousands of protestors have gathered in New York Ciry and across the country to protest against ICE. This is real power.

[Janice Gindel @jgindel]

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[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

The simple truth is that Renee Good would be alive today if Donald Trump were not president. And that’s the most disturbing reality about this entire tragedy.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

And if a federal officer or agent illegally and unjustifiably lays a finger on—let alone brutalizes—a law-abiding person here in America, he should face the full extent of the law.

That is what it means to live in a free society.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

George Conway: “Donald Trump is a man who represents all the things we teach our children not to be. He’s a liar. He’s a thief. He’s a molester. He has no remorse, no shame, no empathy. He has no loyalty to the law, to the Constitution. This man is the lowest character of all”

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

I loathe the Maduro regime passionately and think Venezuelans would be better off without him but this attack is unprovoked, unconstitutional, and unwise.

[Margaret Belan @FadingTeacher]

@ZachSchumaker Apples and oranges. Bin Ladin was not the leader of a country.