Jay Tedder

If SCOTUS rules the 14th amendment covers any foreigner here who happens to have a baby, that would have to be changed via Constitutional amendment; which is a heavy lift. The only thing Congress could do alone is pass legislation declaring all foreigners here illegally or temporarily to be ambassadors of their home country, since ambassadors are excluded from the 14th amendment.

Dear @SpeakerJohnson Do not wait for SCOTUS. Ask @timburchett to write a bill ending birthright citizenship. Get it passed through the house. After Thune is removed from his leadership chair in 2 weeks, get @BasedMikeLee to get it passed through the senate. We’re tired of sacrificing our American dream for every other nation’s carpetbaggers.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Ok, bye bot.

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Yes because you haven’t answered my question. I’m 1/2. You’re 0/1.

You guys understand we’re going to lose the birthright citizenship case, right? Before you completely freak out, the traditional understanding of the 14th Amendment, which we are seeking to change, is not an insane reading of it. Nor are our arguments insane like the left has been same. That’s baloney to just shut us up. Neither side is frivolous. It’s a tough call legally and objectively speaking. But when we lose it, and I think we will, don’t freak out that this is some sort of conspiracy. It’s a hard legal decision. Sadly, we have three judges who aren’t even going to try to examine the question and will always vote for what leftists want. But the rest of the court has to make a tough legal call. I think our reading is the correct one. For various reasons, I think they’re going to rule against us. Don’t freak out when they do. It’s not an utterly irrational ruling like so many of the district court opinions we’ve seen.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Go back to your post "You answered my question with a question?" That's the question you won't answer.

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Lol did you ask me to defend my interpretation using the text you provided? Did I do that?

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter You're the one avoiding. I asked you a question. I know you saw it because you acknowledged it. But you won't answer it. Interesting.

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter You told me to defend my interpretation using the text from your image. I did. You can’t answer my question so you keep avoiding it. Interesting.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter No, you answered your question. Again, can you answer MY question?

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter I just did.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter That was your question, not mine. Can you answer my question?

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Every other class of person refers to any baby born here that is not from an ambassador, etc.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Answer mine and I'll answer yours.

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Why didn’t you answer my question?

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Are you a parrot?

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Can you answer it?

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Can you answer it?

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter You answered my question with a question?

@CBroark @KurtSchlichter It would have to be a Constitutional amendment.

@KurtSchlichter @jaytedder Can Congress pass a law to outlaw this?

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Who are under the jurisdiction, or owe an allegiance to, a foreign power?

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Who is “every other class of person?”

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter Read the section outlined in red and then defend your interpretation. This is the author of the amendment speaking.

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter You’re ignoring the first clause. Foreigners visiting here were not born in the United States. The baby is. They are a separate individual and there is no clause that mentions parents or anything else.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter That's a stupidly suicidal interpretation of the amendment.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter And "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is an important clause. Foreigners visiting here are subject to the jurisdiction of their home country, and thus, any child they might have while visiting here is as well.

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter No, it literally just says born on US soil. Doesn’t mention citizenship of parent(s) at all.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter No, you're trying to make it say otherwise.

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter The 14th amendment says otherwise.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter It does when you are talking about babies born on US soil. It's the parent's citizenship that determines the baby's. If the parents are under the jurisdiction of another country (citizens of another country), that obligation falls to their offspring.

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter 14th amendment doesn’t mention parents at all.

@jcwhitelpc @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter I'm talking about the parents. Their citizenship determines the childs.

@jaytedder @nadinecarroll @KurtSchlichter If they are born here, yes.

@jmt5050 @JosephOnions @Wvv_70 @KurtSchlichter Can a foreigner visiting here vote in our elections? Are they subject to our income tax? Can they legally work? Do they owe a loyalty to another government? Being subject to our jurisdiction is more than merely being on our soil and having to obey traffic laws.

@jaytedder @JosephOnions @Wvv_70 @KurtSchlichter No. Now, what respected legal scholars’ definition besides your own of the word “jurisdiction” means it’s contingent on a nation’s ability to draft someone?

@jmt5050 @JosephOnions @Wvv_70 @KurtSchlichter Does the US government have the "legal power" to conscript a non-citizen into our military? You're not thinking critically here.

@jaytedder @JosephOnions @Wvv_70 @KurtSchlichter You literally have no idea what you’re talking about.

@JosephOnions @Wvv_70 @jmt5050 @KurtSchlichter I have explained it already. You not liking my explanation doesn't change it.

@jaytedder @Wvv_70 @jmt5050 @KurtSchlichter Yes, I'm certain the unprincipled Trump loyalists Alito & Thomas will agree with you. But no one else will. In what way does it mean under the jurisdiction?