President Trump and his Project 2025 people want to run things THEIR WAY….
We were WARNED…..
Trump 2.0 and Company don’t REALLY think the law as written applies to THEM or their action’s…
The quesrtion will be does the Judges, Courts and Congress go along with this?
Just hours into his second term, Donald Trump has been hit with multiple different lawsuits. The lawsuits are challenging his spate of lawless executive orders that he signed from a big boy desk in front of a crowd of his economically anxious supporters who left thousands of dollars worth of their belongings outside of the Capitol One Arena Monday afternoon.
The lawsuits target everything from Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional executive order that reinterprets the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, to his toothless Department of Government Efficiency advisory commission.
And more lawsuits could be on the way.
The ACLU sued Trump over his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, which is plainly guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
Trump’s executive order states that the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to people born to undocumented parents, and thus those people should not be given birth certificates. From the order:
Among the categories of individuals born in the United States and not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary (such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.
The ACLU said in its lawsuit that this order violates the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark….
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Trump’s executive order creating DOGE, meanwhile, was hit with three lawsuits, all of which allege that the fake government department violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, which defines how such committees operate.
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Of course, Trump doesn’t care about following the law, as he thinks he is above it, so it’s unclear if he would even follow court orders that arise from these lawsuits. Already, he is blatantly violating the law that banned TikTokby signing an executive order pausing the app ban.
NPR reported:
While Trump’s executive action Monday attempts to clarify the legal landscape for TikTok, Constitutional scholar Alan Rozenshtein of the University of Minnesota Law School said trying to extend the law’s start date and insulate companies from liability does not change an act of Congress.
“Those actions do not stop the law from being in effect. And it does not stop, let’s say, Oracle, from violating the law — which, as far as I can tell, it is doing right now,” Rozenshtein said….
Pushback on Birthright citizenship…
In addition, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lawyers for Civil Rights filed separate legal challenges in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, respectively, on behalf of parents whose children would not be eligible for citizenship under Trump’s order.
“The Constitution could not be more clear: citizenship of children born in the United States does not depend on the citizenship of their parents,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said in a statement. “That principle is fundamental to who we are as a nation and what it means to be an American.”
The legal actions came after Trump signed the order shortly after his inauguration Monday. Titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” the order stipulates that his administration will no longer recognize automatic citizenship for children born on U.S. soil to immigrant parents who are in the country without authorization, provided neither parent is a U.S. citizen or green cardholder. In his first term, Trump threatened to take similar action but did not follow through.
The order also bars automatic citizenship for children born to noncitizen parents who are in the country on temporary work, student or tourist visas….
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Civil liberties organizations have said birthright citizenship is protected under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. A legal case could ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court, in which conservative justices outnumber liberal ones, 6-3….
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“One of the reasons for constitutional citizenship is so we are not subject to the whims and winds of political favor as they change,” said Elizabeth Wydra, president of the constitutional Accountability Center. “We want to make sure citizenship is recognized as stable, secure and an important aspect of dignity … and so you’re not worried about it being taken away by the next election.”…
Democratic Socialist Dave says
In Canada and Western Europe, the citizens choose the government.
In Trump’s America, the reverse will apply.
jamesb says
This IS just the beginning….
As it WAS in Trump 1.0 the wave will hit the Wall and come back against him…
It’s gonna be tough
But he’s test for this country and the ‘System’….