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Let’s think about this on a grander scale. Is it possible that ISIS leaders would send their pregnant women to birth their children in America?
Oren,
Exactly. Despite the author's contention, O'Reilly was right in his concern over the wording of the 14th Amendment. While the writers of it intended to restrict citizenship in the manner the author of this article expressed, the wording leaves open other interpretations.
So you're correct to say the only way to correct it is through a constitutional amendment. And since Congress is unlikely to propose a corrective amendment, the States must do so through an Article V Convention.
Yet many aggressively reject that approach saying that there's no problem with the 14th Amendment if interpreted according to the original intent. But the catch is IF. Sadly, neither the Courts nor Congress will do so.
Bob
It will only fester until the American people wake up and speak up! The first amendment gives the people absolute power in all government matters but so far most of us have been too stupid to use it.
WE ARE A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE!
BY GOD, WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT! WE THE PEOPLE CAN OVERRULE CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENT AND EVEN THE SUPREME COURT!
I for one am sick and tired of our politicians living high on the hog with taxpayer money!
I STUMP FOR TRUMP, THE ONLY REAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN EITHER PARTY!
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! MAKE AMERICA GREATER THAN SHE HAS EVER BEEN
THIS IS WHY THE DONALD MUST BE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE AND THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
WASN'T THIS DONE FOR THE CHILDREN OF FREED SLAVES B/C THEY HAD NO HOME
WHAT IS YOUR AMENDMENT FOR THE INVASION NOW UNDERWAY THANX TO OHITLERS
IGNORING OF THE LAWS. I SAY USE ART IV SECT 4 NOW. ENFORCE THE FED IMMIG
LAWS AND THEN MOVE THE BORDER BK TO THE BORDER
Oren,
Group naturalization without an amendment has been done before in the US. It was done with inhabitants of various territories we acquired such as Guam, the American, Samoa.s the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico among others. My late grandfather of Puerto Rico was one of those affected.
The 14th Amendment was written 2 years after the 13th due to the racist attitudes of Southern States, which seem to exist in many to this day, when they refused to grant blacks citizenship.
Bob
Oren,
That goes without saying as Article 1 Section 8 gives that authority to Congress, not the Executive or Judicial branches.
Bob
Oren,
I love your knowledge of history. But what about The Battle at Wounded Knee in 1973?
Sorry, I was being onery again. I think the last battles of the official Indian Wars was in the early 1920s between the Paiutes and Mormon settlers and the Apache Wars.
Bob
Sorry Oren, I was being onery as I was battling some super patriots about Cruz's eligibility and their obvious disdain for him due to his not being a WASP.
You take all thoes cute little Illegal Babys with their carring Illegal Mothers and you deport the whole Dam Family ,No Anchor Babys .
That's not possible under current law. That's why we need an amendment to ban anchor baby status.
When legal immigrants came over via Ellis Island they wanted to be working citizens and they took the oath of allegiance to America. In addition, they were honest people who wanted to be an asset to our country. These illegal people here now haven't gone through the system that is expected of immigrants. Hence they are invaders and shouldn't be considered citizens. They are also still loyal to their countries of origion. They send American money "back home" when this should be their only home. They are usurpers. They don't want to give, but to take. No one can tell me that the Vikings of old who invaded various countries were welcomed with opened arms. They were quite simply invaders. They didn't assimilate themselves into these new places and neither do the ones we have here today. In fact they expect the US citizens to assimilate to their way of life. It's backwards from what it's suppose to be and the "lugheads" in Washington are bowing down to them. They have been selling out the true citizens for the vote. I think we're all worth much more than that. I'm tired of hearing about why we can't get rid of them. That's negative thinking. When you consider how much taxpayer money is going to provide for these people we would be saving money in the long run to deport them. Hang the expense! Just do it!
Do brown balls matter?
House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning after an investigation that violated fundamental provisions of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The investigation of the president began with the complaint of a so-called “whistleblower” who turned out to be a rogue Central Intelligence Agency employee, protected by a lawyer who had called for a “coup” against Trump in early 2017.
Democrats first demanded that the “whistleblower” be allowed to testify. But after House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was found to have lied about his committee’s contact with the “whistleblower,” and after details of the “whistleblower’s” bias began to leak, Democrats reversed course. In violation of the President Trump’s Sixth Amendment right to confront his accuser, Democrats refused to allow the “whistleblower” to testify. They argue the president’s procedural rights, even if they existed, would not apply until he was tried in the Senate — but they also invented a fraudulent “right to anonymity” that, they hope, might conceal the whistleblower even then.
Schiff began the “impeachment inquiry” in secret, behind the closed doors of the Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF) in the basement of the U.S. Capitol, even though none of the testimony was deemed classified. Few members of Congress were allowed access. Schiff allowed selective bits of testimony to leak to friendly media, while withholding transcripts of testimony.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), having allowed the secret process to unfold, legitimized it with a party-line vote authorizing the inquiry. The House resolution denied President Trump the procedural rights enjoyed by Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, and denied the minority party the traditional right to object to witnesses called by the majority.
Rather than the House Judiciary Committee, which traditionally handles impeachment, Pelosi also deputized the House Intelligence Committee to conduct fact-finding; the Judiciary Committee was turned into a rubber stamp. Schiff held a few public hearings, but often failed to release transcripts containing exculpatory evidence until after they had passed.
In the course of the Intelligence Committee’s investigation, Schiff quietly spied on the telephone records of his Republican counterpart, Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA). He also snooped on the phone records of a journalist, John Solomon; and on the phone records of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, acting as President Trump’s personal lawyer.
Schiff’s eavesdropping violated both the First Amendment right to press freedom and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Yet he proceeded undeterred by constitutional rights, publishing the phone logs in his committee’s report without warning, confirmation, or explanation, alleging that Nunes and the others were part of a conspiracy to assist the president’s allegedly impeachable conduct. When Republicans on the Judiciary Committee asked the Intelligence Committee’s majority counsel, Daniel Goldman, to explain the phone logs, he refused to answer,
Ironically, Schiff had done exactly what Democrats accuse Trump of doing: abused his power to dig up dirt on political opponents, then obstructed a congressional investigation into his party’s and his committee’s misconduct.
Democrats’ articles of impeachment include one for the dubious charge of “abuse of power,” which is not mentioned in the Constitution; and one for “obstruction of Congress,” which in this case is an abuse of power in itself.
Alexander Hamilton, writing about impeachment in Federalist 65, warned that “there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.” Democrats have fulfilled Hamilton’s worst fears.
The Trump impeachment will soon replace the 1868 impeachment of President Andrew Johnson — which the House Judiciary Committee staff actually cited as a positive precedent — as the worst in American history.
In service of their “coup,” Democrats have trampled the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Republic has never been in greater danger.
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