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In reply to the discussion: Yes, they did rule on Birtright Citizenship [View all]Ms. Toad
(37,336 posts)The executive order was very carefully crafted by someone other than Trump with enough knowledge of the intricacies of constitutional law to be narrow enough they believed it had a chance to survive judicial scrutiny. Every single court that has reviewed the question of injunction (which inherently involves the question of success on the merits) has issued the injunction because even the narrowly drafted EO was unlikely to be constitutional.)
They won't issue a broader order - probably not even after this one goes through the courts. First, property rights are legally far harder to remove once granted than they are never to give in the first place. That is the reason for the starting date 30 days after the executive order took place. They aren't taking rights from anyone, they simply aren't granting them to new people.
Not to mention that trying to pick a starting date for the change in interpretation of who is a citizen, if it isn't a starting date in the future, is ridiculously complicated. The only two logical points would be those born in America to the people who originally lived here, or people born in America after the amendment was adopted. Either one, as the furor today suggests, would leave virtually no birthright citizens.
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