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I don't get how you square those two together.
Probably with “The founders only wanted what I think they wanted, despite their explicit instructions”
Interpreting old texts to match their own personal beliefs is what Christo fascists are best at.
And they're not even fucking good at that. The only thing they truly excel at is spreading hate.
You just lie about the second part and have a government full of sycophants and a corrupt Supreme Court that declares that everything you do is by definition legal.
Look no further than the dissent to United States v. Wong Kim Ark (when the Supreme Court ruled that the passage you cited grants citizenship by birthright), written by Chief Justice Melville Fuller, the mastermind behind such legal opinions as:
Anyway, he wrote:
and
So in other words, he was willing to rule that the constitution is optional as long as you are using it against undesirable races in order to get his way.
It absolutely does! That's the point!
You can be born abroad to US citizens and still be a citizen.
You and I know this because we paid attention in high school. The Chief Justice does not.
Oaths and honor don't matter to the corrupt and degenerate.
It's why they used the language of "invaders". 14th amendment doesn't provide protection for invaders. This is the first step in working around the constitution.
Sophistry and bullshit, that's how. Authoritarians don't base anything on reason. It's all "because I said so, and because I have a gun pointed at your head."
I'm sure Scalia will find some 15th century witch burner who's writings justify it somehow.
Don’t worry, the bootlickers in the Supreme Court will find the dumbest argument you ever heard to rationalize it.
They don't need to find a good argument. There's nobody holding them accountable.
Not that there are any good arguments.
Only the second one matters
Lol, neither of them matter, bud.
Yep, talk's cheap.