@AndrewZywiecMD@FaithDa20605778@Photo_Mayor I’m pretty sure the question that they’re getting at is “why restrict this item” and not “why do they have the power to restrict this item”
@RobertReyn1aq5@urvalequinn@BreeNewsome If the people who wrote and ratified the 14th amendment wanted it to only include enslaved people and their children, then we both know they could have used different language right? Even if you disagree with them, they weren’t so stupid that they couldn’t do that
@RobertReyn1aq5@urvalequinn@BreeNewsome It doesn’t. Again, read the actual text. There are exceptions such as for the children of diplomats, invading forces, and (at the time) Native Americans. The children of foreign nationals who are subject to the jurisdiction of the US are not one of those exceptions.
@RobertReyn1aq5@urvalequinn@BreeNewsome Do I really need to explain the difference between native Americans who weren’t fully subject to US jurisdiction and foreign-born people in the US who are subject to US jurisdiction? It’s not that difficult
@RobertReyn1aq5@urvalequinn@BreeNewsome Native Americans under most circumstances were not considered to be subject to the jurisdiction of the federal government at the time
@RobertReyn1aq5@urvalequinn@BreeNewsome The Wong Jin Ark was the first case which made it to the Supreme Court but the plain text reading was affirmed by lower courts before then. The Indian Citizenship Act wasn’t passed until 1924, but I’m not sure what your point is there.
@RobertReyn1aq5@urvalequinn@BreeNewsome What text in the amendment excludes people born to foreign nationals? It excludes people born to diplomats & invading forces, but not all foreign nationals. There are records of debates prior to the 14th amend. being ratified where this subject has come up. It wasn’t an oversight
@RobertReyn1aq5@urvalequinn@BreeNewsome What are you talking about? The text of the 14th amendment is pretty clear and it’s not like the people who wrote it didn’t realize what they were doing.
@urvalequinn@BreeNewsome They anticipated someone like Trump and provided the tools to deal with it. What they didn’t anticipate is a Congress that was so willing to abandon its duty
There's a situation where both left-wing and right-wing people are using the same AI photo to bolster their arguments. The right-wing people show he has something suspicious in his hand. The left-wing people show he was shot in the back.
Meanwhile, an officer has no head.