His main point is that there's a difference between someone belonging here and someone just passing through.
Freed slaves, Thomas says, belonged here in every way that mattered.
They had no other country to go back to.
They owed loyalty to no foreign king or government.
America was the ONLY home they had ever had, and they had worked, suffered, and fought for it like everyone else.
Now picture a completely different situation: a baby born to two tourists who are in the country for a two-week vacation.
That family still has a home somewhere else, still belongs to another nation, and will go back to it.
Thomas's point is that these two situations are NOTHING ALIKE, even though both babies were technically born on U.S. soil.
The citizenship rule, he argues, was built for the first kind of person, the one who truly belongs, not for the second.
I have just finished reading Justice Clarence Thomas's 91-page dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
It's incredible.
Here's everything you need to know: 🧵
Communism always goes the same way. They smile & promise you the world. Free this, free that, abundance for all! How? Don't ask!
Then they get into power, and the rationing begins. First a smiley ask. Then a demand. Then a bullet. "You used too much energy, comrade"
I don’t know if you had time to watch the Congressional hearing for families whose children were murdered by illegal aliens yesterday. I watched the entire hearing.
The father of 22-year-old Logan Federico, who was murdered execution style by a man arrested 39 TIMES with 25 FELONIES!
I know this is long but please watch and share. THIS is exactly how fellow Americans feel about our Congress. Mr. Federico lays them out!
I was one of those parents, it was disgusting from their whole bench of characters. Didn’t have to be that way.
So sad.
Selective compassion.
Zero for innocence.
Jessica Gorman, Sheridan's mom, deserves a lot of credit for laying out the unreasonableness and unkindness of sanctuary policies and open borders pols in the raw and unscripted way she did so before this House Judiciary Subcommittee.
Please share with the sentimental barbarians in your lives who are either complicit with or willfully blind to these policies and pols.
Pritzker says Democrats should be judged on affordability.
Challenge accepted.
Illinois has some of the highest property taxes, gas taxes, and overall tax burdens in America.
Nobody has done more to make life expensive for Illinois families than he has.
After eight years by Gov. JB Pritzker's side, your only accomplishment is making Illinois the least equitable state in the Union.
You've left a disgraceful legacy as Lieutenant Governor.
I had a great time today at the Illinois Pavilion at the Great American State Fair celebrating America’s 250th.
Governor Pritzker may have refused to participate, but thankfully the citizens of Illinois stepped up to showcase our state’s rich history, strong agricultural heritage, and the values that make Illinois great!
Thank you to everyone who made this possible. Illinois deserves to be celebrated.
McConnell found unconscious of a suspected heart attack days after voting NO on the SAVE America Act.
Against his constituents.
Who really voted?
Senator for 40 years.
Everything wrong with Congress.
Congress isn’t meant to be a crooked nursing home.
The Supreme Court made clear: the 2nd Amendment is not a second class right. Some states aren’t getting the message.
Every gun-grabber should note: Banning the most popular pistol in America, violates the 2nd Amendment and @CivilRights is taking action!
https://t.co/LiHKJorK1w
🚨 JUST IN: AAG Harmeet Dhillon just sued to STRIKE DOWN Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's draconian ban on AR-15 and similar-style rifles
GOOD! 2A will win again! 🇺🇸
"SB749 infringes the right of law-abiding Virginians to purchase and sell AR-15 style rifles and therefore violates the Second Amendment. Thus, Defendants have acted and will continue to act in blatant disregard of the constitutional rights of the citizens of Virginia," the filing says
h/t @hannahhill_sc@AAGDhillon
CNN’s Abby Phillip tries to paint Republicans as “heavily anti-immigrant.”
Elizabeth Pipko, the daughter of two immigrants, corrects Abby to her face and adds back the one word she left out.
PHILLIP: “This country… is designed to give citizenship to people who come here.”
PIPKO: “Can I just push back on that slightly? … I’m a daughter of two immigrants. I’m a supporter of immigration when it’s done the legal, correct way. I think immigrants have done an incredible bit of good for our country, including my own family.”
“I don’t think there is an anti-immigrant sentiment. I think it’s an anti-ILLEGAL immigrant sentiment.”
“I would say a good chunk of why Donald Trump got elected is because we have a problem with ILLEGAL immigration. I’d say most Americans actually agree on that.”
Add back the one word she skipped, and Abby’s accusation collapses. CNN might need to stop inviting Republicans on the show.
That right-wing lunatic, Senator Harry Reid, recognized that unrestricted birthright citizenship is insane
We should pass his 1993 bill, perhaps naming it the “Harry Reid Act”
Who’s on board?
Listen to this bitch! @PramilaJayapal is addressing the families of children who’ve died at the hands of illegal aliens…and she tells them they’re just wasting her time.
The arrogance, disdain, and evil is unbelievable. How has this country devolved to this point?
This isn’t my America. At all.
So maybe we should revoke visas when a non-citizen gets pregnant.
That’s a cruel alternative.
But less cruel than what SCOTUS did to the USA’s citizens today.
This is absolute INSANITY!!
California Sen. Scott Wiener just helped DEFEAT a bill that would have banned all registered sex offenders from running for public office.
Let that sink in AND read that twice!
This guy is actively fighting to keep pedophiles and predators eligible to HOLD POWER over our kids, our communities, and our laws.
Democrats like Wiener aren’t just soft on crime, they’re pro-criminal. They’re out here protecting the worst of the worst while law-abiding Americans get screwed.
This is why California is a disaster and why we need to keep fighting these radicals with everything we’ve got!