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Lord, this is as stupid as it is gross. Conservatives sure do seem to have a hard time reading the plain text of the constitution: " All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States ..."
2/ "persons" is key here. Members of Congress were very clear on the definition of "persons". It included people who were still not given full political rights (women) and those who had until recently had no rights at all (former slaves). It is clearly written to be maximally ...
3/ inclusive "ALL PERSONS".
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I was successfully going stealth as a follower on my son's fortnite twitch stream. then this afternoon he asked if I was X username. the tell? i used a comma in one of my chat posts. smh
2/ Okay, this tweet has generated a bit more attention than I anticipated. So a little backstory. A few people got the idea that I was spying on him and got caught. That’s not it. Quite the opposite actually. He’s been on us to follow him because he’s all about building ...
3/ an audience and hitting certain benchmarks that these platforms get you gunned up to want to meet. And the reality is that I just like watching it, though for some reason I took some perverse pleasure in him not knowing precisely which of the followers was me.
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Business advice I got when I was first coming up was always negotiate with yourself first. Right?
Actually reminds me of famous scene where Michael is talking to Sen. Geary and says, "My offer is this. Let me know what you want and I will try to make it happen.
And also please don't leave before we figure out some deal because I really need a deal today.
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Read this and the underlying story it picks up and this is definitely not what the Yahoo News article said. Not even close. rawstory.com/2018/12/sarah-…
2/ Hmmm. The mystery deepens. As I wrote, the claim about Sarah Sanders being unable to find work was not in the Yahoo article RS linked to. But it seems like it originally was there. It was apparently removed from the Yahoo article post publication. But a syndicated version ...
3/ of the story was also published at MSN. And that version wasn’t revised. With automated syndication revisions or rewrites often don’t catch up. You can see that version here. msn.com/en-us/news/pol…
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The Real 14th Amendment: What They Don't Teach in School
canadafreepress.com/article/the-re…

The 14th Amendment addressed the issue of citizenship of former black slaves after the Civil War. Democrats in the 1860s were reluctant to grant their former slaves citizenship & consequently the
2) right to vote, which necessitated the 15th Amendment. No Democrat in the House or the Senate voted for the 14th or 15th Amendments.

As recent as the 1990s, Democrats & the Left were convinced of the opposite…that there were caveats and exceptions to birthright citizenship.
3) This position no longer serves their political purpose. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: our education system, the main stream media, Hollywood and the Democrat Party, have long adopted the route of Vladimir Lenin, that is: “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
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1.This thread is to help law students analyze some of the questions arising from the #BirthrightCitizenship debate. I'm trying to help you answer questions your non-lawyer friends might have and to take it beyond political partisanship into legal method. That's your value-added.
2. Here's what the 14th Amendment says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The issue in this current debate is the meaning of "subject to the jurisdiction" of the U.S.
3. How to decide what the Constitution means? Four basic (over-simplified!) methods: a. Textualism; b. Originalism; c. Precedence; d. Policy Preference. More on each in the following tweets.
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1) The Civil Rights Act became a law April 9, 1866 (14 Stat. 27, c. 31), and provided:
2) And this was reenacted June 22, 1874, in the Revised Statutes, section 1992.
3) The allegiance of children so born is not the local allegiance arising from their parents' merely being domiciled in the country, and it is single and not double, allegiance.
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Here you go, kids. #WednesdayWisdom #VoteBlue
wapo.st/2Q7gkhn?tid=ss…
2/"Sometimes the Constitution’s text is plain as day and bars what politicians seek to do. That’s the case with President Trump’s proposal to end “birthright citizenship” through an executive order. Such a move would be unconstitutional and would certainly be challenged. And the
3/"challengers would undoubtedly win. Trump has long argued that birthright citizenship for the children of parents not legally in the United States should be abolished. “It’s ridiculous. And it has to end,” he told Axios in an interview released Tuesday, in which he disclosed
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Alright, let's dive into a #Law140 on birthright citizenship and this idiotic story

The TL;DR:
1️⃣ Trump cannot do this via Executive Order
2️⃣ News outlets who uncritically parrot Trump's claim that he can, without noting he can't, are misinforming readers
(They're also promoting even more civic illiteracy than normal. But I realize that ship set sail a long time ago.)

Before we begin, the standard #Law140 disclaimers apply:

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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
The text of the Fourteenth Amendment is not ambiguous. If you're born here, and you're not the child of a diplomat, you're a citizen.
Can you be arrested and prosecuted by the government of the United States? Yes? Well, then, congratulations! You're subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
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