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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lambo 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Birthright citizenship
Date: 12/10/25 12:52 PM
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If the Supremes move to change the meaning, we have a huge problem with the court.

I think it is already clear that we have a problem in this very radical right court.


It changes the scope of just how big the problem is. We do have a "problem" with the court right now, the use of the shadow docket to make decisions that genuinely require a full written decision by the court, that their decisions allocate power away from Congress to the Executive, small decisions of allowing ICE to use skin color as a basis for suspicion of illegal presence - there are a lot of these that throw precedence out the window, they look like they will go along with declaring certain groups terrorists in an EO and allow full blown investigations of them on the whim of the President. There are firings of people who have done nothing wrong base on the executive power - lots of these. There are a host of these that have already occurred and more, but the rebuttal arguments are that illegals presence here in the US reduces their protection, and that the groups are acting in concert against the government and therefore the people, causing huge property damage and killing people (Charlie Kirk), and the President can exercise his executive power at his discretion. These actions stretch from some being a reasonable interpretation, though based in the right wing, to interpretations that are obviously false, contrived, to justify any action the president desires.

But if you reinterpret the Constitution to threaten the clear basic citizenship rights granted in the Constitution, you will be crossing over to Dred Scott territory, which is famously considered the worst decision the Supreme Court made. If that happens applying the word fascist to this movement and administration is very correct, and the least of our worries. Trump will have succeeded in using executive powers to change the constitution.
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