Donald Trump announced Tuesday that if he is elected president, he will end birthright citizenship as part of an attempt to stop undocumented immigration to the United States.
Undoing the Fourteenth Amendment would be a lengthy and complicated process, which the former president does not seem to understand.
“As part of my plan to secure the border, on day one of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” Trump said in a video posted on his Truth Social platform.
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Remember this when Democrats say Biden can't sign executive orders cancelling student debt because it would be challenged in court
IMO this looks like a perfect EO that the conservative Supreme Court can shoot down and make themselves appear like they are just looking at the facts.
The Biden EO to cancel student debt was stupid, because it was citing some Covid-era authority that wasn't really clear AND the emergency declaration is now over. If they shoot it down, it will be legally correct in this case. There is an older law that wasn't part of an emergency declaration and it gives Biden actual authority to cancel student debt. If I was president and I believed that SCOTUS will declare my laws unconstitutional just because they feel like it (=they are conservative ideologues), I would at least write EOs in a way that would be internally coherent.
That would imply you actually wanted to accomplish the goal at hand.