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Posted on 05/20/2026 4:46:28 PM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) unveiled legislation Wednesday aiming to ban foreign-born US citizens from serving in Congress and other high levels of the federal government.
The South Carolina congresswoman singled out Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Shri Thanedar (D-Ill.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in announcing her joint resolution to add an amendment to the US Constitution that would prohibit naturalized US citizens from becoming federal judges, holding Senate-confirmed positions or serving in the House or Senate.
“All born in foreign countries, none were citizens by birth. All sitting in the United States Congress. All making clear every single day their loyalty is not to America,” Mace said of the trio of Democratic reps.
Mace noted the proposed amendment would impose the “very same standard the President and Vice President are already required to meet” on lawmakers and top government officials.
“The people writing America’s laws, confirming America’s judges, and representing America on the world stage should have one loyalty: America. Not any other country,” she argued.
“For too long we have allowed foreign born members to hold seats in this government while making clear they are America last, not America first,” Mace added. “We see it every day.
“This constitutional amendment will put an end to it.”
Twenty-six House members, including 19 Democrats and seven Republicans, were born outside of the US.
In the upper chamber, six senators – four Democrats and two Republicans – were born outside the US.
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We have to have rules. Unfortunately, those that have been allowed to be in the judiciary and Congress are certainly not the best. It is like they are here to sabotage our American ways.
Too many have allegiances to their former countries and have that former country of birth in their minds when decision making.
I believe you are incorrect. Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969) made it clear that Congress cannot add further qualifications. The only qualifications are found in Art. I, § 2, cl. 1–2.
We’ve never required that amendment as much as we do now.
What’s the procedure?
No.
The asshole that shot up Fort Hood some years back was a “naturalized citizen” if I remember correctly and a major.
My tribe and my tribe only. Born here. From here. Part of here.
We will probably disagree, but it changes nothing. Respectfully.
“The South Carolina congresswoman singled out Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Shri Thanedar (D-Ill.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in announcing her joint resolution to add an amendment to the US Constitution that would prohibit naturalized US citizens from becoming federal judges, holding Senate-confirmed positions or serving in the House or Senate.”
“...add an amendment to the US Constitution...”
Perhaps it should be being rather than “becoming.”
Yes, we will disagree.
But that’s life and the way it is.
“While the majority of Israelis are born in Israel and do not hold dual citizenship, a significant number do. Research indicates that over 200,000 Israelis hold dual American citizenship”
https://www.bing.com/search?q=US+citizenship+Israelis
From 2015:
1.Attorney General – Michael Mukasey
2. Head of Homeland Security – Michael Chertoff
3. Chairman Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Richard Perle
4. Deputy Defense Secretary (Former) – Paul Wolfowitz
5. Under Secretary of Defense – Douglas Feith
6. National Security Council Advisor – Elliott Abrams
7. Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff (Former) – “Scooter” Libby
8. White House Deputy Chief of Staff – Joshua Bolten
9. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – Marc Grossman
10. Director of Policy Planning at the State Department – Richard Haass
11. U.S. Trade Representative (Cabinet-level Position) – Robert Zoellick
12. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – James Schlesinger
13. UN Representative (Former) – John Bolton
14. Under Secretary for Arms Control – David Wurmser
15. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Eliot Cohen
16. Senior Advisor to the President – Steve Goldsmith
17. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary – Christopher Gersten
18. Assistant Secretary of State – Lincoln Bloomfield
19. Deputy Assistant to the President – Jay Lefkowitz
20. White House Political Director – Ken Melman
21. National Security Study Group – Edward Luttwak
22. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Kenneth Adelman
23. Defense Intelligence Agency Analyst (Former) – Lawrence (Larry) Franklin
24. National Security Council Advisor – Robert Satloff
25. President Export-Import Bank U.S. – Mel Sembler
26. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families – Christopher Gersten
27. Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs – Mark Weinberger
28. White House Speechwriter – David Frum
29. White House Spokesman (Former) – Ari Fleischer
30. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Henry Kissinger
31. Deputy Secretary of Commerce – Samuel Bodman
32. Under Secretary of State for Management – Bonnie Cohen
33. Director of Foreign Service Institute – Ruth Davis
Senate[2015]:
•Senator Barbara Boxer (California)
•Senator Benjamin Cardin (Maryland)
•Senator Russ Feingold (Wisconsin)
•Senator Al Franken (Minnesota)
•Senator Dianne Feinstein (California)
•Senator Herb Kohl (Wisconsin)
•Senator Frank Lautenberg (New Jersey)
•Senator Joe Lieberman (Connecticut) (Independent)
•Senator Carl Levin (Michigan)
•Senator Bernard Sanders (Vermont) (Independent)
•Senator Charles Schumer (New York)
•Senator Ron Wyden (Oregon)
House of Representatives:
•Representative Gary Ackerman (New York)
•Representative John H. Adler (New Jersey)
•Representative Shelley Berkley (Nevada)
•Representative Howard Berman (California)
•Representative Steve Cohen (Tennessee)
•Representative Susan Davis (California)
•Representative Eliot Engel (New York)
•Representative Bob Filner (California)
•Representative Barney Frank (Massachusetts)
•Representative Gabrielle Giffords (Arizona)
•Representative Alan Grayson (Florida)
•Representative Jane Harman (California)
•Representative Paul Hodes (New Hampshire)
•Representative Steve Israel (New York)
•Representative Steve Kagen (Wisconsin)
•Representative Ronald Klein (Florida)
•Representative Sander Levin (Michigan)
•Representative Nita Lowey (New York)
•Representative Jerry Nadler (New York)
•Representative Jared Polis (Colorado)
•Representative Steve Rothman (New Jersey)
•Representative Jan Schakowsky (Illinois)
•Representative Adam Schiff (California)
•Representative Allyson Schwartz (Pennsylvania)
•Representative Brad Sherman (California)
•Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida)
•Representative Henry Waxman (California)
•Representative Anthony Weiner (New York)
•Representative John Yarmuth (Kentucky)
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/members-in-us-politics-who-hold-dual-usisraeli-citizenship/
ha.
you’re sharp as a tack today, ha.
no thanks. i aint gonna dive down that rabbit hole.
see:
https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/s/ITFugAlsIl
however, you may enjoy noting that the constitution only requires the congresscritter to live in the state ... not in the district it represents
so we have some congresscritters who actually reside outside the districts they supposedly represent
in a gerrymandering some years back, Maxine Waters (aka” Mad Max” one of the craziest and most racist lefties around)
saw ‘her’ district lines move......away from the expensive little neighborhood she lives in. She has never seen fit to move into the district (much poorer and high crime) she supposedly represents.
since she is resident in her state, that satisfies that element of the constitutional qualifications
Indeed.
Well said, friend.
Most effective method to improve the country would be to ban all liberals from holding any government office. Going on step forward, ban all Democrats from Congress. That would
Improve the country beyond imagination.
The Congress has Article I, Section 8 power to make rules for the government.
I have in the past proposed:
No ruling or decision by a federal district or appellate court judge on a case against a government, a governmental agency or governmental person shall be applicable beyond each entity or private person individually listed within by name or personal particulars by the judge personally.
No federal judge who has or has possessed foreign citizenship may adjudicate an immigration, asylum or removal case.
No district court federal judge shall work on a case who has a parent, aunt, uncle, sibling, child, grandchild or known partner of such close relative or a personal partner with any case related interest.
The following district and appellate court judges are hereby barred from hearing cases where the federal government is a party or federal funding is in contention:
....
Thanks for the list. I’m pretty sure these are only estimates, however, as there is no rule enforcing disclosure, of any dual citizenships in Congress, just confirmed by AI.
That would need a constitutional amendment.
Plus, it’s not any kind of priority now.
No, Congress could relieve any Congressman with two third of the vote by the legislative body.
WIKI
Thanedar previously co-sponsored a resolution to halt aid to Israel, describing it as an Apartheid state, in the Michigan House of Representatives. The next year, he faced opposition from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in his run for the US House. In summer 2023, he traveled to Israel on an AIPAC affiliated trip. On return, he described the relationship between Israel and the United States as mutually beneficial.
On October 11, 2023, the Detroit Free Press reported that Thanedar had “renounced his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), saying it hasn’t adequately denounced Hamas for its ‘brutal terrorist attacks’ on Israel last weekend.” This came after the Detroit DSA had already moved to expel Thanedar after he escorted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose premiership they called “far right, violent, [and] Islamophobic”, on a state visit to the US.
In January 2026, Thanedar introduced the Abolish ICE Act (H.R. 7123). The legislation proposes dismantling ICE and ending its enforcement authority. His office announced the bill on January 9, 2026 and it was officially introduced in the House on January 15, 2026. The bill was proposed shortly after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent on January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis. Thanedar described ICE as “beyond reform”.
On April 29, 2025, Thanedar filed multiple articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Charges include usurpation of Congress’s appropriation powers, obstruction of justice, abuse of power, bribery, and corruption. These articles of impeachment did not receive party-wide support, faced intra party backlash, and notably lacked approval from party leadership. On May 14, 2025, Thanedar cancelled a vote on his bill after pressure from other Democrats.
The articles of impeachment were strongly criticized by Democrats as a “rogue” attempt to blindside and mislead the party, and was seen as a “selfish” way to strengthen his position in the competitive primary he would be facing in 2026 against Michigan State Rep. Donavan McKinney who had announced his campaign on the same day.
About 170 dogs and 55 monkeys were rescued in July 2010 from an abandoned pharmaceutical testing lab in New Jersey owned by Thanedar, after it went bankrupt in April 2010. Local animal rights activists learned that 118 beagles were still stuck inside the facility and the lab’s workers were jumping the lab’s fences to provide food and water for the dogs. Thanedar claimed that the bank was in charge of taking care of the animals.
After Thanedar sold Avomeen in 2016, a federal lawsuit alleged that he made “fraudulent and misleading” claims to inflate the value of the company in a deal that netted him roughly $20 million. The complaint alleged that Thanedar personally directed employees to smooth over volatile revenue growth in the months leading up to the sale, and instructed bookkeeping staff to back date invoices so revenue could be recognized in prior months to suggest a more stable income stream. Thanedar denied the accusations, but later settled for an undisclosed amount four days before the trial was to start.
In 2023 HuffPost reported that in Thanedar’s first year in Congress, he “has gained a reputation for vanity in an institution powered by the stuff, burning through staff at a rapid clip, alienating his fellow members and spending taxpayer funds on what some people with knowledge of his office view as naked self-promotion.”
Congressional colleagues and former staff were quoted by HuffPost criticizing Thanedar for his “malleable political beliefs” that have shifted when politically expedient, such as his conversations with consultants before his run for Governor about whether he should campaign as a Democrat or a Republican.
Former staffers said Thanedar’s congressional office is a toxic work environment, leading to understaffing and high staff turnover. In his first year in Congress, Thanedar went through three different chiefs of staff, and the office only had six or seven permanent staff instead of the more typical 15-18 staffers for a House lawmaker. Thanedar spent 38% of his House budget in that first year on staff pay, while the average House member spent 78%. U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who represents the neighboring district, has publicly criticized Thanedar multiple times because his constituents contact her office when they cannot get support from Thanedar, saying “he isn’t putting in the work of a public servant and is leaving his working-class communities across his district with no real advocate.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Thanedar
That may be. But the decision certainly isn’t based on the text of Art. I Section 2, itself. I’d have to read through the opinion to get a sense of their argument, what portion of the Constitution they’re using to justify their decision, and whether I agree with it or not, but again, there’s nothing in a clear reading of Art. I Section 2 itself that prohibits further qualifications from being added.
The three disasters should be easily beaten.
The Republicans need easy pickings.
>>”There’s no point arguing about this - you’re babbling based on your own opinion and presuming to call me stupid based on your own stupidity. It’ll take an amendment to the Constitution to change things, dummy.”
No, I’m actually “babbling” about common sense. If you can’t understand the difference between a right and a requirement, then that’s on you. But I agree, there’s no more point in arguing about this with you.
I would think dual citizenship would normally come through a parent via birth and the constitution of the parents’ countries’ constitutions. Wikipedia often provides citizenship information of a subject’s parents.
India requires an application, possibly to not run afoul of the Amendment XIV (complete) jurisdiction requirement. Kamala’s Indian mom doesn’t block her from being an NBC, but her Jamaican dad and the Jamaican constitution do, IMO.
I think only Jews frequently acquire foreign citizenship after being born with American citizenship.
It used to be easy for an Italian-American to get Italian citizenship.
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