• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    He can put out an order requiring the sky to be green. It’s just words, that’s the point. The only thing he can affect with an EO are things where his sycophants can enable it to the extent they are involved in the executive branch. NOT the Judicial Branch. The judges who order and enforce the laws can’t just ignore the constitution. Birthright Citizenship is in the constitution.

    What the SCOTUS ruling here adds is some dumbshit to make the process more stupid than it needs to be for people without legal status it seems, but it is not a change to the law, or enforcement. That needs to be understood.

    All it’s going to take is a specifically angled case to ask the question “Is birthright Citizenship in the constitution? Oh, it is? Well then it’s constitutional”

    Another court case that isn’t about the procedural nature of obtaining said documentation or status will shut this shit down in a heartbeat, but as others have noted, the legal process of getting it there takes longer than most would like.