Before government funded public education, Americans were among the most educated people in the world through private and home schools. Over time, Horace Mann and John Dewey's vision of a centralized, government controlled education system designed to reshape society became a reality. The results speak for themselves.
I just finished reading Clarence Thomas's dissent. I encourage you to do the same. If you take the time to read Roberts's opinion and compare it to Thomas's dissent, Thomas completely outclasses Roberts. His is a step-by-step history and constitutional lessen that brilliantly and methodically unravels every aspect of Roberts's argument.
The Supreme Court just ruled that, apparently, immigration IS a suicide pact. It has struck down Trump's birthright citizenship executive order and chose to distort the single most important phrase in the 14th Amendment: "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
When the Republican Congress drafted this amendment after the Civil War to protect freed slaves from the Democrat Party's terror campaign, they inserted that phrase for a definitive reason. It was meant to cover people who owed FULL ALLEGIANCE to this country. It was never written to create automatic citizenship for children born to people who enter our country illegally, or who come here on tourist visas just to give birth, or are part of a mass surrogate campaign run by the Chinese Communist Party to increase its influence over America.
The authors of the 14th Amendment would never recognize what the Court did today. They have taken our constitutional compassion, born of justice and mercy, and twisted it into a weapon against us. It makes absolutely no sense.
Let's make it simple: Roberts and his Majority twisted the history of the 14th amendment and just constitutionalized birthright citizenship knowing full well that our nation, like Europe, is facing a grave threat from within as a result, in part, of the intentional refusal of our government, when the Democrats are in power, to enforce immigration laws and, oppositely, facilitating the importation of aliens from all over the world without proper vetting. Moreover, these justices know how China is using birthright citizenship, as are a number of Islamist regimes, where enemy governments are using our system to infiltrate our country to destroy it from within. This decision is grievous in every respect.
A majority of the Supreme Court decided that to be legally American is so debased, it can be obtained as the proceeds of criminal conspiracy, and the founders who risked hanging to forge this nation wanted us all one day to think citizenship is just a game, a joke
The 14th amendment was adopted by more than 2/3rds of the members of Congress and thereafter ratified by 3/4ths of the states. Yet, nowhere can the Court or its proponents point to all those elected representatives at the federal and state level who argued for birthright citizenship for the children of aliens — illegal aliens of all matter! In fact, it wasn’t even on their collective mind. They were dealing with Reconstruction, which was going poorly.
No, this is not a constitutional decision. It’s a cowardly decision. An abomination giving constitutional protection to what is illegal conduct.
As he continues moving through his decision, Roberts again appeals to English common law, among other things, as the basis for the 14th amendment. But notice what's missing. Where are all the stirring speeches by members of Congress and the state ratifiers supporting Roberts's proposition? Keep something in mind: two-thirds of both Houses of Congress must propose amendments to the states. In turn, three-fourths must ratify amendments. That means despite all the debates and speeches that occurred, Roberts and the proponents could not find support for their position. The speeches and declarations don't exist. The focus was the terrible problems that arose in the South after the Civil War, the rise of the KKK, the terrible violence and lynchings against Blacks, and the overall difficulty with Reconstruction. Congress and the states were not thinking about birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens. They weren't glued to the ideas of English Common Law. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were about creating the constitutional protections for freed Black slaves throughout the nation, not citizens of other countries who hadn't even arrived yet on our shores -- legally or illegally. The extent to which Roberts and the Majority have to rewrite our history to reach their decision is ugly business.
The framers of the 14th Amendment were very clear about Birthright Citizenship:
"This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens..."
The Supreme Court just abandoned the Constitution, folks.
The *author* of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, Senator Jacob Howard, literally explained during the debates that it would obviously not apply to illegal aliens or foreigners not allegiant to the United States…
It was for the children of former slaves.
“This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens…”
- Jacob Howard (1866)
This is a massive betrayal of the American people and a disregard for the original intent of the 14th Amendment.
So we’ve got open voting season, mail-in ballots, no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, ballot harvesting, drop boxes AND birth right citizenship.
Well played, Democrats. The invasion worked.
Meanwhile so-called republicans won’t pass the Save America Act and have backed off mass deportations because it looks “mean.”
Months before the Supreme Court ever ruled, I had a feeling exactly this would happen. An executive order was never going to be strong enough to permanently fix birthright citizenship, no matter how good the intentions behind it were. That's why I filed a constitutional amendment early this year instead of waiting around to see how the courts would rule.
This decision confirms what I already suspected. If we want real, lasting change, it has to come through the amendment process.
@SpeakerJohnson Guthrie, you, and anyone who supported, co-sponsored, or voted yes for this legislation to pass in the House tonight are major threats to the freedoms of the United States. You should all be considered traitors and need to be voted out & removed from office as soon as possible.
Here’s the roll call of members of Congress who betrayed the Constitution and the American people by voting yes on the KIDS Act.
The sickest part is that these people used “protecting kids” as an excuse to further insert government between parents and their children—all while establishing a surveillance infrastructure to monitor and control Americans of all ages.
Any member of Congress who votes yes today on the KIDS Act—empowering the government at parents’ expense and turning every American into a surveillance target—should be removed from office.
This is a dangerous anti-privacy bill (identity verification) that the House of Representatives might try to pass by voice vote this afternoon before many of us are even in town. Senators Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Ron Wyden voted against a similar bill in the Senate two years ago.
Anyone else notice how the Iran situation is turning into background noise?
That’s the trap. It becomes a hum everyone got used to,all while trillions of dollars are quietly funneled into the military industrial complex.
This is exactly how "forever wars" become the norm.