Today's Supreme Court decision on the birthright citizenship amendment should have been a unanimous 9-0 ruling, not a razor-thin 5-4 squeaker — and the fact that it was this close should absolutely terrify every single one of us.
The term "birthright citizenship" is often framed as an immigration-only issue. That framing is completely intentional, and it is precisely why this right is under attack.
In reality, if you were born on American soil, you have birthright citizenship. Today, the Supreme Court ruled by a single vote that your constitutional citizenship stands.
Four strategically installed justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh — voted to undermine that very right, with Kavanaugh dissenting in part, according to The Guardian.
A core strategy of the current anti-American movement seizing our institutions and violating the rule of law is to take a foundational right and rebrand it to sound like it only applies to immigrants.
In truth, today's dangerously narrow decision could have placed the citizenship status of anyone born on American soil in serious jeopardy.
While the selling point to nativists focused on American citizens born to immigrant parents, had the decision gone the other way, it would have left everyone's citizenship status incredibly vulnerable.
The majority ruling was simple: "Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause."
In other words, it was a 5-4 vote just to ensure the 14th Amendment stands.
In a chilling dissent, Justice Samuel Alito argued that the Court made a "serious mistake" by upholding the 14th Amendment.
Is it any wonder fascist crybullies are cranking up their whining?
When the midterms are over, lawmakers must immediately address this dangerous slate of compromised justices and their relentless attempts to dismantle centuries of American democracy from the bench.
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Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.
The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.
Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.
The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.
Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.
The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.
The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.
This is your tax money.
It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.
We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.
Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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