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As a neutral and unbiased observer of politics, I can honestly tell you that @VanessaAronson will be the greatest member of City Council that New York has ever seen. I hope you will support her.
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The Unhitching Hour
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The Unhitching Hour
@UnhitchingHour
Dad, husband, divorce lawyer, amateur political scientist
New York, USA Katılım Ağustos 2010
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@SeanMcCarthyCom @TheAuthorGuy Hey, how does a discharge petition play into any of the things you listed? Impeachment resolutions are privileged - you don't need a discharge petition. The 25th Amendment needs to be invoked by the cabinet. How many Democrats are in Trump's cabinet?
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25th amendment. Impeach. Military coup. End this. I don't care how. Every worthless democrat is walking us off a fucking cliff into the apocalypse.
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@ASFleischman I think that gives too much credence. The text isn't particularly ambiguous - you basically need to argue that the framers of the 14th Amendment completely miswrote what they intended, like someone selling a house writing "hundred" instead of "thousand" in the purchase price.
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Fun fact: there was actually more than one guy in the Senate when the 14th Amendment was passed.
Rather than holding a seance to see what they had in their hearts, we read the text.
Incidentally, this is your strongest evidence, and it's, at best, ambiguous.
Brandon Gill@realBrandonGill
Something tells me that when Senator Jacob Howard wrote 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' in the 14th amendment, his intention wasn't that pregnant Guatemalans could cross into Texas, give birth, and have a child with the same rights as you and I.
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@kate_p45 @willchamberlain It's been the unquestioned law for 160 years, but will destroy our country? Okay.
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Or foreign workers. It's insane and will destroy our country. I live in a county that has over 35,000 foreigners from India and surrounding countries, most on work visas or another idiotic program. They come here, have multiple children per family and visa program rules are out the door because of birthright citizenship. Just multiply that across the country. They don't assimilate. Don't consider themselves American.
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If you were crafting immigration law from scratch, literally the last thing you would do is grant citizenship to the children of those who violate immigration law
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@dailydishwater @JohnTeufelNYC Exceptions to the "vote blue no matter who" principle should be exceedingly rare, or the principle is meaningless. If a single awkward answer pretext to claim that a candidate should be disqualified, then you'll be able to cherry-pick something about literally any candidate.
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It's funny how it's fine for centrists to declare they would never support someone for president but when the left said it about Gavin Newsom everyone had a heart attack and accused them of being secret fascists
Jamie Metzl@JamieMetzl
I am a Democrat. I would never support AOC for president. It would be suicidal for the Democratic Party to choose a far left extremist as our candidate.
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@Geiger_Capital 1) Where in the 14th Amendment does it mention domicile?
2) Why not?
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Justice Alito brings in a key point…
You can’t establish a legal permanent domicile somewhere you are illegally present and subject to removal at any time.
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@shortmagsmle Roberts doesn't believe the Constitution is a living document.
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Weird how the constitution is only a “living document” when it allows migrants to set people on fire on the subway but never when it could be used to improve life for actual Americans
Casey Mattox@CaseyMattox_
“It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.” - Roberts, CJ.
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@ArcherThrone @DGPsalm3 @ChristianHeiens What does it mean to be "subject to the political jurisdiction" of a state?
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@DGPsalm3 @ChristianHeiens There are multiple federal jurisdictions within this context. Birthright citizenship assumes criminal jurisdiction which was acknowledged to not be enough at the time. Political jurisdiction is what matters. If someone is not of the polis their children aren't either.
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This entire case is a very simple question that's being overcomplicated.
"Does America get to decide who belongs to it, or is it forced to accept whoever arrives within its borders?"
If a polis isn't permitted to choose who may be a member or remain within its territory, then it doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense, and it's certainly not sovereign.
We're going to lose this country because "conservative" Supreme Court justices do not understand what time it is.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett now appears skeptical of striking down birthright citizenship for illegals "I can imagine it being messy in some applications." "What if you don't know who the parents are?"
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@SleestakMack If the foreign diplomat is here legally, they are not subject to the jurisdiction of our country. If they illegally sneak into the country, they are. That's a pretty salient distinction.
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If a foreign diplomat gives birth in New York, the child is not a US citizen.
But if the diplomat illegally sneaks into the country and THEN gives birth, bingo! US citizenship! That’s how dumb our current interpretation of the 14th Amendment is.
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@mattyglesias I know that I am glad they outlawed fingerling and yukon gold potatoes since people tend to prefer russets.
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Most Americans prefer a detached single-family house, so it’s just common sense to say that only detached single-family houses should be legal to build — this is a very sound approach to economic regulation that is successfully applied in markets for many kinds of things.
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@Geiger_Capital So the laws of a foreign country get to dictate who is a citizen of the United States? Who gives a shit what China or Iran think?
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Justice Alito once again nails it…
If a Chinese or Iranian person enters our country illegally and has a child here, their child is automatically a citizen of that foreign nation, and is even required to fight for that nation.
How are they not "subject to" a foreign nation?
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@culturecanceler @ferald_gord Also, Alito spent the first few decades of this career, until he was part of a 6-3 majority that could do basically whatever it wanted, castigating the "living constitutionalists" who thought that you needed to interpret the Constitution to fit modern circumstances.
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@ferald_gord It’s so funny to hear alito kvetch about “but what about this new problem not contemplated by this amendment?” To quote Scalia, if you don’t like it, call a constitutional convention (which I’m loathe to do bc it seems like something the American right would count on)
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thomas is weird in that his view of the law usually ends up comporting with his political views. alito on the other hand, is just a hack who rules based on his politics. he’s also a horrible writer.
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@DrewSav Difference between a political party and a cult.
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Remarkable difference in how Kay Hagan handled Obama's unpopularity vs how Michael Whatley handles Trump's. Given the environment Hagan fairly substantially overperformed but still lost.
wbtv.com/2026/03/04/wha…
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@upstatefederlst Nope, just the consent of Congress. You know, the body that the Constitution says gets to make these decisions.
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Once again: it cannot be true that every executive action requires the unanimous consent of the entire judicial branch.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Judge blocks President Trump from constructing his White House ballroom until Congress authorizes it.
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@DrewSav Perhaps the best example ever of voters just not wanting to listen to warnings about Roe v. Wade being overturned.
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In the Obama era Dems could not run faster to distance themselves from a very unpopular President. Mark Udall ran away from Obama in a state he carried twice.
time.com/3507165/alison…
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@DrewSav I assume Spanberger will ignore him, but if she doesn't, she should say something like "I'll debate him right after he debates Trump about Republicans doing it."
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There is approximately 0% chance Spanberger is gonna debate a has-been
No Gerrymandering Virginia@nogerryva
“Let’s look Virginians in the eye.” Governor George Allen is challenging Gov. Abigail Spanberger to 3 public debates on gerrymandering before the April 21 referendum. After $28M+ in ads, the question is: will this conversation happen on stage? #NoGerrymanderingVA
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is a daily April Fools joke.
TheBlaze@theblaze
Ketanji Brown Jackson: “How does this work? Are you suggesting that when a baby is born, people have to have documents determining a newborn child is a citizen of the United States? Are we bringing in pregnant women for depositions?”
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@DrewSav This is the billionaire class's way of getting his attention. They know he's just throwing stuff at the wall, but if they pretend to believe him and pump the markets, maybe he'll actually follow through.
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Not sure what's more pathetic: Trump blatantly playing the stock market or the investors dumb enough to keep believing him. How many times is the market gonna rally under the belief that he'll undo his policies only for him to double down?
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@whoismrzero @DrewSav The tent is far less embarrassing than an eyesore monument to one demented man's egotism and corruption.
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@DrewSav The ballroom is needed.
Presidents have routinely said we needed one since the Teddy Roosevelt administration.
The White House does not have enough entertaining space.
It is embarrassing for the “Leader of the Free World” to have to host State Dinners in a temporary tent.
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Trump's fixation on building all this random stuff is something I just truly don't understand. Why do we need a ballroom, an arch, a white house patio, etc?
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@mattyglesias We never really understood how much shame was the factor keeping the worst human beings from rising. He has none, and time after time, he was proven right.
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Throughout his life, Trump has been remarkably adept at coming back from total fiascos — Atlantic City bankruptcies, Access Hollywood, promising that Covid would vanish by April, January 6 — that ought to have led to his permanent demise as a major figure.
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@GoldRoyalty1 @mattyglesias @JDVance @elonmusk They'll never have enough votes. If they ever did, they would and should absolutely do those things, though.
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@mattyglesias @JDVance @elonmusk You think Dems are lying about court packing, PR & DC statehood, national abortion laws, wealth taxes, abolishing ICE, etc when they end the filibuster?
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