Trump v Babies

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By Monica Morales-Garcia
Jun 8, 2025

The day President Donald Trump returned for his second term at the White House, he signed an executive order redefining Birthright Citizenship. The order argued that children born in the United States are citizens only if they have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.

A day later, five pregnant women filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that the order is unconstitutional ...

The women and their litigation team, Asylum Seeker Advocate Project (ASAP), CASA, and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) are fighting to protect the rights of all children born in the United States. And for Mónica, as an asylum seeker with no country to return to, without birthright citizenship, her baby could be born stateless ...

https://www.latinousa.org/2025/06/08/trumpvbabies/

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1. Appellate court judges show skepticism of rump's birthright citizenship arguments

By: Gloria Rebecca Gomez
June 5, 2025 5:51 pm

... On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a lawsuit launched in January by Arizona, Washington, Illinois and Oregon against the federal government. The Democratic-led states took the federal government to court just a day after Trump issued an executive order that sought to deny citizenship to children born in the country after Feb. 19, 2025 if the child’s parents are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. A district court judge in Seattle has since temporarily blocked the executive order from going into effect, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional”.

The Trump administration is hoping to convince the appellate court to reverse that ruling, arguing that the benefits of the Fourteenth Amendment, which grants citizenship to people born on U.S. soil, was never meant to apply to the children of undocumented immigrants ...

Excluding the children of undocumented immigrants from the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment would leave hundreds of thousands of children born in the country every year in legal limbo, and likely at risk of deportation. According to the lawsuit brought by the Democratic states, both parents of as many as 3,400 children born in Arizona in 2022 lacked legal status ...

The judges appeared skeptical of McArthur’s claim that parental residency in the country is a prerequisite of birthright citizenship ...

https://azmirror.com/2025/06/05/appellate-court-judges-show-skepticism-of-trumps-birthright-citizenship-arguments/

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2. Birthright citizenship order lands in Seattle appeals court

By Jake Goldstein-Street Washington State Standard
Friday, June 6, 2025 1:30amLocal NewsNorthwest

SEATTLE — Federal appeals court judges in Seattle on Wednesday questioned a Trump administration lawyer and Washington’s solicitor general over the president’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.

The three-judge panel in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared more open to the Trump administration’s arguments than a federal judge in Seattle who in January called the order “blatantly unconstitutional.”

Perhaps the most pointed question came after a lengthy back-and-forth over what the writers of the 14th Amendment meant when they enshrined birthright citizenship into the U.S. Constitution.

Hawkins asked Department of Justice attorney Eric McArthur, who clerked for conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, what the late Justice Antonin Scalia would think of his arguments. Scalia, an ardent originalist, anchored the Supreme Court’s conservative wing alongside Thomas ...

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-lands-in-seattle-appeals-court/

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3. Trump's suggestion is idiotic. Huge numbers migrated to the US

between the wars in the 1920s and 30s. Many lived here for the rest of their lives and raised families here. Not all became citizens before having children. So the Trump rule would strip citizenship from many elderly people who always thought themselves citizens. A number of them are likely to have married similar children of immigrants, so there are likely to be a group of people born in the 40s and 50s who thought they were citizens but won't be because both their parents were children of non-citizens.

It;'s a damnably-stupid ideokogically-motivated and mean-spirited rule that tears at the fabric of America

[Norrrm]

4. When discussing the Constitution...

When discussing the Constitution...

All things not specifically forbidden must be allowed, IF that supports your premise.

All things not specifically allowed must be forbidden, IF that supports your premise.

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5. The whole party should be put down like the rabid animal it is.

[Bayard]

6. trump spews executive orders like farts

He doesn't get to rewrite the Constitution. At least, not yet.