"You're an American if you love America, share its founding ideals, and prefer its way of life! That is all that's required!"
"Hold on a second. Are we actually requiring any of those things?"
"What?"
"Like, can we revoke people's citizenship and kick them out if they don't love America?"
"No! Of course not! That would violate the first amendment!"
"How about if they don't share the ideals of its founders?"
"No! First amendment!"
"How about if they don't adopt or practice the American way of life, or don't even bother to learn English?"
"No, you bigot! First amendment!"
"Can we deny or revoke citizenship to anyone, in any way, based on any ideological test or public expression of feelings or opinions?"
"No, that would be literally fascism. What's wrong with you?"
"So what you're saying is that an American identity exists, we're just not allowed to test for it in any way, or exclude those who don't have it?"
"Now you finally get it!"
I’ve watched this probably 100 times at this point.
This one quote by this one juror is radicalizing me in ways I didn’t know were even possible:
“He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously k*lled her children…”
I don’t know where we go from here…
@MattisRedacted This is the guy that called for the police to shoot the protesters during that kerfuffle on the 6th of January a few years ago. Wouldn't be surprised at all.