He’s wrong, of course, as the Senate debate on the passage of the amendment plainly shows.
I do not care what and if Harry Reid said if it did not become a law.
If the Repubs want to make this so, propose a 28th amendment repealing some or all of the 14th. Try and use better terminology than “anchor babies” and be like law-type-making-guys.
By their inactions they are allowing a President to write laws that challenge amendments, then leaving it up to SCOTUS. We’re going to be dealing with more serious stuff like the War Powers Act and if Congress doesn’t take that power back then they are useless and who needs Article I ? We’ve got the King and his Court.
Which is what they want.
And Trump has always considered himself a god-king, not a President anyway.
One good judge steps up
This will be the norm for the next four years. Trump will keep thinking that executive orders are the same thing as royal edicts, and judges will keep slapping them down. It’s a complete waste of everyone’s time.
Let’s hope the guardrails remain in place.
If the EO is “blatantly unconstitutional” (which I strongly believe) why only a pause in the order? Of course this is headed where we all knew it would- the Supreme Court Republicans Of The United Maga States.
Because it takes time to hold the hearing which will determine whether the order gets put on hold until after the full case plays out. We’re still at the “preliminary injuction” phase of the process here.
I’m pretty sure that visa processing could be sped up for children born in the US who are not citizens at birth (could even be made basically automatic) . The problem will come in 21 years, when the first bunch of dependents who weren’t born US citizens have to deport themselves to a country they don’t know. Or actually sooner than that, when people from other countries either refuse to come to the US or refuse to stay longer than a few years.
Nothing involving immigration is fast. I mean, the nominal processing time of a few months is lightning fast compared to how long it takes to process most applications. But if Trump 1.0 is any predictor, I think it’s safe to anticipate a significant increase in processing times, even for what should be relatively straightforward applications.
I mean, it’s the enforcement actions against undocumented immigrants that get the headlines, but there is still plenty of terrible or just inconvenient nonsense going on when it comes to legal immigration as well. It just doesn’t get the press coverage, from either the left or the right.
Worth remembering that while fascists might campaign on making the trains run on time, reality tends to be the opposite. It’s just that they do so many other things that are so much worse than mere delays to train schedules that we forget that (in terms of historical memory).