Introduction
In another brazen attempt to rewrite American constitutional law, former President Donald Trump's executive order targeting birthright citizenship got absolutely destroyed in federal court, as it should. This latest shitshow perfectly exemplifies Trump's continued assault on fundamental constitutional rights and his administration's complete inability to understand basic constitutional law.
The Executive Order: Another Half-Assed Attempt at Constitutional Revision
Trump's executive order, which would have gone into effect on February 19, tried to pull off what many legal scholars are calling a complete bastardization of the 14th Amendment. The order aimed to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States if neither parent was a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. This would have impacted roughly 150,000 newborns annually - you know, just casual discrimination against thousands of innocent babies.
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