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> the benefits of which shall not be diminished or impaired.

Doesn’t say ‘or taxed.’ Democrats can’t outlaw taxation; it would go against their religion. THEIR taxes don’t diminish or impair YOUR benefits from YOUR labor in any way. Just ask any elected Democrat or public union rep in the state! Set separate rates for just the category defined by §21, set them high and highly progressive.

Congress referring the head of the Department of Injustice to it for charges of Perjury is worthless. Referring the same to the same for charges of Contempt of Congress is the same.

However, Congress has an intrinsic ability of holding people in Contempt of Congress on its own, and both the ability to jail them and to provide the jail services, all under its legislative authority. It hasn't used that for a century or so and usually seems to have forgotten about it, but the power remains. IIRC it can convict and imprison people for the duration of that session of Congress. They'd go free then, although I suppose the next Congressional session could repeat the process.

What I don't recall (and is obviously important) is whether that can be done by one House, acting alone, or whether both Houses would need to vote to lock someone up. If any freeper does recall, please post on it. If the House alone could act then Speaker McCarthy, at least theoretically, has enough votes to lock up Garland. Although, granting his narrow majority, he might choose an even more widely despised target (Mayorkas?) to bring the RINOs on board for a demonstration case. If, on the other hand, both House need to vote to imprison someone via Intrinsic Contempt, then we're out of luck for any direction actions stronger than investigations and withholding funds. Although conceivably the investigations might uncover facts regarding crimes conceivably within a state's jurisdiction which might be brought by a GOP prosecutor, if present therein (Paxton?!). The Rats might try to scream federal supremacy and deny jurisdiction, but even their voters and the MSM might notice the problems between that scream and Fani Willis's case against Trump et al.

Instead of the Magnificant Mile, Chicago can now shop at Government Uber Malles.

How far from where pilot bailed out?

Zero credibility is the serious side effect of massive lieing by Team Swamp. Partial solution is to convert planned new FBI HQ into a prison and stuff in as many Swampers as inmates as fit.

One potential limitation is you’d have to know molecularly specifically which immune response to turn off. That’s not known for all the autoimmune diseases and some likely involve reaction to multiple molecular targets. The good thing is, like the early cancer medical trials, there are people sick enough and desperate enough to sign on for long shot drug trials. Let those willing Guinea pigs work out the bugs and side effects until enough is known to justify the then better known risks to those less sick.

Sikh ancestry and upbringing. Methodist convert decades ago.

I think Nikki is a Sikh, not a Hindu..

Don’t just sue the arresting officer, sue Grisham and the officer personally. How can making a flagrantly unconstitutional act be considered part of one’s official duties when such acts are barred? How can a state official claim the right to act outside the US Constitution when they’d sworn an oath to uphold it. They must logically be considered personal acts, not falling under the umbrella provided for acts taken per the rights and duties of a sovereign office. Argument should also apply to any such arresting officer whether or not you correctly recall NM LEO immunity law.

Send the “Palestinian” “refugees” to their holy land. Saudi Arabia infamously has an “empty quarter” with plenty of room for them. So what if it has no resources to support life. The zionists found no resources when they immigrated to what’s now Israel on most of the plots of worthless land the arabs sold them for high prices. If those reviled jews could bring life to a desert, why can’t Allah’s chosen people?

Keep sending the unarmed lib idiots until the whole category of such has been mugged into reality. There will likely be some losses along the way, but they would occur in what the libs deem a good cause and their losses won't hurt our position. The Mpls city council woman who was carjacked and beaten in her own driveway last week wasn't nearly enough to reverse the defund the cops folks.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. — Robert Heinlein

Trying to interfere with the above automatic sentence is also stupid. Instead, get out of their way 🍿.

Stated Official US policy, ever since we gave up our admitted bio and chemical weapons was that we’d respond to any attack by either with nuclear weapons. So “Nuke Mexico” might fit, but I’d suggest a different aiming point. After thousands dead from the Wuhan lab release and thousands more dead from precursor chemicals sold by China to the Cartels for making Fentanyl, “Nuke China.” Admittedly with the Wu Flu we maybe also should Nuke Fauci and a few others; buy some of Putin’s special umbrellas. < tongue, loosely, in cheek >

“International waters”

Constitution specifies Congress shall have power “To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas”. So if SF thinks highly of those seas it should request aid from its Rep… PeLousey.

“ and subject to the jurisdiction and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” was written as equally important to “born or naturalized in the US”. Its meaning was disputed, hence Wong Kim Ark. We’ve been vigorously taught that ruling’s meaning ever since, which you express.

Nonetheless originalists continue to dispute its accuracy. There have been LOTS of threads on FR rehashing this over the years. The dispute is equally as historical as that case and the 14th itself, section 5 of which empowers Congress to pass laws implementing it. Of which a law banning birthright citizenship could be an attempt.

I don’t worship stare decisis, I worship the Constitution as was written and intended to mean. My town, in the never slave territory now known as Iowa, in its official history lists as one of its first residents, one Dread Scott. Taney’s SCOTUS was wrong about him. That was belatedly fixed via the 13th. But other bad decicscions: Plessy and RHoe, were revisited and fixed by SCOTUS. Some claim no new decision is needed here, just new law under §5.

Wong Kim Ark was 1898. I’d thought it was earlier, but birthright citizenship has been touted since. I disagree with that.

> That is a direct violation of the Constitution and will take about 5 minutes for a judge to overturn. According to some folks and some case law that is ‘true’ and is the likely initial result. BUT based on the history of creating the 14th, the amendment on which they rest their claim, an honest, textual and originalist based appeal probably should go with Vivek here. We’ve all just been brainwashed on the subject for 140 years. At most, simple legislation should be able to end it. Not so sure about mere exec order.

Folks are going to have to test that ICCPR rule soon in CA as Newsom soon signs passed bill forcing judges to separate kids from parents if they don’t affirm gender whims.

>The kids won that suit

My understanding is the won because the state didn't offer a significant defense. Which is a popular greenie strategy in need of fixing more than just 'standing.' Courts shouldn't have standing to act as a legislature of one via rubber stamping non-adversarial consent decries.

KSM managed to incinerate a couple thousand out of NYC’s millions and plotted for that to kill thousands more. We haven’t tried him in 22 years. So why do anything to those who literally decimated a town of 13,000.

Interesting place for the roll out. Expecting a bunch of newly Post Traumatic Stressed Democrats there? When they stop ignoring how all the “missing” could have gotten away for a small, isolated, government blockaded community, stop bantering about human carbon releases and start looking for the carbonized humans they hadn’t released they’re going to need drugs to keep them voting, rather than lynching, Democrats. Throwing folks into live volcanos arguably neither being “unusual” there nor “cruel” by historical standards, perhaps that could be updated for modern times. Releasing the guilty from drones onto lava flows, with press drones for documentation, might appease some spirits.