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  • DOJ Directive Ends Citizenship for Certain Crimes

    06/30/2025 4:40:50 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 42 replies
    Newsmax ^ | June 30, 2025 | Newsmax Staff
    The Department of Justice released a memo, published on June 11, that could strip some Americans of their citizenship, reports The Guardian. The memo instructs attorneys in the department to conduct proceedings to revoke a person’s citizenship in the event they have committed certain crimes. The memo says if someone’s citizenship was “illegally procured” or procured “by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation,” attorneys in the department should work to revoke their citizenship. The memo references 25 million U.S. citizens who were born abroad and subsequently immigrated to the country. It also lists 10 categories for denaturalization....
  • Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census

    06/29/2025 6:12:34 AM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 76 replies
    Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census. President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined “to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said last month.
  • Supreme Court Nukes Nationwide Injunctions Against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

    06/27/2025 9:20:49 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 42 replies
    The Federalist ^ | June 27, 2025 | Shawn Fleetwood
    ‘When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too.’On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court declared rogue lower courts’ universal injunctions against President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order to be unlawful.“[F]ederal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them. When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too,” Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote.The final decision was 6-3,...
  • Supreme Court curbs injunctions that blocked Trump's birthright citizenship plan

    06/27/2025 7:45:49 AM PDT · by Beave Meister · 10 replies
    NBC News.com ^ | 6/27/2025 | Lawrence Hurley
    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday handed a major win to the Trump administration by allowing it to take steps to implement its proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship. In a 6-3 vote, the court granted a request by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by judges so that they apply only to states, groups and individuals that sued. That means the birthright citizenship proposal can likely move forward at least in part in the states that challenged it as well as those that did not. The court was divided on ideological lines, with...
  • SCOTUS Limits Federal Judges’ Ability to Block Executive Actions Nationwide

    06/27/2025 7:35:35 AM PDT · by DFG · 35 replies
    Democracy Docket ^ | 06/27/2025 | Jacob Knutson
    In a sweeping ruling, the Supreme Court limited the ability of federal judges to block executive actions throughout the country through nationwide injunctions, greatly affecting how parties seek judicial relief going forward. The court’s 6-3 ruling Friday, with all six GOP-appointed justices in the majority, deals a significant blow to legal challenges against President Donald Trump’s extreme executive orders and other actions, many of which have been blocked or temporarily put on hold through nationwide injunctions. Nationwide, or universal, injunctions prevent the government from enforcing a law, regulation, or policy across the entire U.S. — not just against the specific...
  • Italian citizenship referendum void after low turnout

    06/09/2025 3:42:02 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 2 replies
    BBC ^ | 06/09/2025 | Laura Gozzi
    A referendum in Italy on easing citizenship rules and enhancing workers' rights has been declared invalid. Around 30% of voters participated - well short of the 50% threshold required to make the vote binding - in the poll, which began on Sunday and ran until 15:00 (14:00 BST) on Monday. The ballot featured five questions covering different issues, including a proposal to halve the length of time an individual has to live in Italy before they can apply for citizenship from 10 to five years. The referendum was initiated by a citizens' initiative and supported by civil society groups and...
  • Germany Sees Record Number of Migrants Granted Citizenship, Syrians Top the List

    05/31/2025 3:14:07 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/31/2025 | Kurt Zindulka
    The German government handed out a record number of citizenships to immigrants last year, rising to nearly a quarter of a million passports, with Syrian and Turkish nationals representing the largest cohorts. According to data collected by 13 of 16 federal states in Germany and provided to the Welt Am Sonntag newspaper, 249,901 foreigners were granted citizenship in 2024, the highest number since records began in 2000. This number surpassed the previous record set in 2023, when 200,095 people were awarded citizenship. Last year’s record naturalisation number is likely much higher, given that the states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and...
  • Supreme Confusion - Chaos reigned at the Court — and a dose of judicial supremacy to boot.

    05/22/2025 8:42:51 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 8 replies
    American Mind ^ | May 22, 2025 | John C. Eastman
    Attending oral argument last week in the case touching on birthright citizenship pending before the Supreme Court, I observed a combination of confusion, omissions, and outright lies from some of the justices. As the lawyer for one of the amici, I witnessed the Court address the propriety of the nationwide, universal injunctions that have been issued by several district court judges blocking the execution of President Trump’s day-one executive order on birthright citizenship. Let’s begin with the lies. Early in the argument, Justice Sotomayor unequivocally stated that the Court had held 127 years ago that anyone born on U.S. soil...
  • Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S. Citizens; Revisiting old but still-controlling Supreme Court decisions on birthright citizenship

    05/22/2025 8:19:22 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 27 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 05/22/2025 | Gabriel Canaan
    On the very day Donald Trump became president again, he signed an executive order prospectively eliminating birthright citizenship for children born to aliens unlawfully present in the United States. Immediately, lawsuits were filed in a half-dozen jurisdictions across the country challenging this order. The groups bringing these suits claim the order disrupts long-standing legal norms governing citizenship. Yet, in fact, Trump’s contention — that birthright citizenship is not possessed by children of illegal aliens under the “correct interpretation of the law” — is exactly right. Birthright citizenship is conventionally understood to apply to any child born in the United States,...
  • Danish man living in Mississippi detained by ICE at naturalization meeting

    05/22/2025 6:13:08 AM PDT · by Jessarah · 63 replies
    Mississippi Today ^ | May 20, 2025 | Emily Wagster Pettus
    A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took him into custody because of a “paperwork miscommunication” during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says.......................... ......For years, Kasper went through the process of trying to become a U.S. citizen, and Savannah Eriksen – now homeschooling their children and pregnant with their fifth baby, due in August – said her husband’s move toward citizenship appeared to be on track. He received notice last September that his naturalization application was...
  • ‘They Want to Cheat’: Elon Musk Warns Democrats Are Planning to Steal More Elections With Non-Citizens’ Votes

    07/09/2024 4:33:48 AM PDT · by airdalecheif · 31 replies
    thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Jul. 8, 2024 7:45 am | By Ben Kew
    Business mogul Elon Musk has warned that Democrats are planning to steal more federal elections by allowing people who are not U.S. citizens to vote.
  • Raskin: Birthright Citizenship Executive Order a ‘Loser’ for Trump

    05/15/2025 5:37:47 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/15/2025 | Pam Key
    On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship was “a loser.” Host Kasie Hunt said, “I want to start with what the Supreme Court discussed here today. They seemed open to limiting the ability of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions. Do you think there’s potential validity to that?” Raskin said, “Not really. It would mean, for example in this case on birthright citizenship, that every family in America that might be affected or every person who might be affected would have to go themselves to court...
  • US Supreme Court grapples with Trump bid to restrict birthright citizenship

    05/15/2025 4:07:37 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 28 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 15, 2025 9:00 PM UTC | Andrew Chung, John Kruzel and Blake Brittain
    SummaryTrump order targeted children of certain immigrants Three judges issued orders blocking policy nationwide Administration challenges nationwide injunctions WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court wrestled on Thursday over Donald Trump's attempt to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thousands of babies born each year as the Republican president seeks a major shift in how the U.S. Constitution has long been understood.The court's conservative justices, who hold a 6-3 majority, seemed willing to limit the ability of lower courts to issue nationwide, or "universal," injunctions, as federal judges in Maryland,...
  • My One Definitive Takeaway From SCOTUS Argument on Birthright Citizenship

    05/15/2025 2:37:34 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/15/2025 | Susie Moore
    The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Thursday in three (consolidated) cases involving challenges to President Donald Trump's executive order regarding birthright citizenship. I listened to the argument and have a few takeaways that I'll share here, but there are some preliminary matters to address before I do that.First, as explained previously, today's argument was not about the merits of the executive order (though they necessarily were discussed to a degree), nor was it about the merits of nationwide or universal injunctions in all contexts. Second, even the most learned legal scholars (which I most assuredly am not) will tell...
  • Supreme Court Opinions followed by Oral Arguments - Birthright Citizenship Case Injunction --- May 15, 2025

    05/15/2025 6:47:14 AM PDT · by CFW · 76 replies
    Cspan ^ | 5/15/25 | Supreme Court
    At 10:00 a.m. today, the Court will issue opinions in one or more of the cases pending for the October 2024 term. Scotusblog will be liveblogging as the opinions are released. You can follow that blog at:Scotusblog opinion release A list of the pending cases can be found here:October 2024 casesAfter the release of Opinions, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the government's implementation of Trump's Executive Order on birthright citizenship. I'm not sure how much the Court will address the actual merits of the case since the main issue is the constitutionality of federal judges issuing national...
  • Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court [Tuesday]

    05/12/2025 8:40:15 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 45 replies
    For more than 150 years, almost all people who were born within U.S. territory automatically received citizenship – regardless of their parents’ immigration status. President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order on birthright citizenship – stating that children born in the U.S. to parents who are not in the country legally, or who are not permanent residents, cannot receive citizenship – threatens to upend this precedent. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the case on May 15, 2025. This comes after federal judges in three cases that took place in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington banned Trump’s order...
  • The Myth of Birthright Citizenship: A Constitutional and Historical Refutation

    05/11/2025 5:05:35 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 61 replies
    The New American ^ | May 9, 2025 | Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
    For far too long, the American legal and political landscape has been distorted by a fundamental misunderstanding of the 14th Amendment: that merely being born on U.S. soil makes one a citizen. This misconception contradicts the original intent of the amendment’s framers. Furthermore, it undermines the foundational principle that citizenship arises from allegiance, not geographic happenstance. On May 15, the Supreme Court will take up three cases, consolidated under the name Trump v. CASA. It will address Donald Trump’s bold and necessary attempt to end the unconstitutional practice of granting citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of parental...
  • It's Time to Stop Counting Illegal Aliens in the Census

    05/11/2025 4:40:34 AM PDT · by george76 · 26 replies
    Townhall ^ | May 09, 2025 | Katie Pavlich|
    During his first term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Census Bureau to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 national survey. There was good reason for this. The Census is used to count the population. Population numbers are then used to determine how many congressional seats are allocated to each state. Given illegal aliens aren’t citizens and ineligible to vote, they should not have representation in Congress and Democrats shouldn’t benefit from additional congressional seats based on an illegal population. “If unauthorized immigrants were excluded from the apportionment count, California, Florida and Texas would...
  • The Claremont Institute Files Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Uphold Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship

    05/05/2025 2:59:50 PM PDT · by absalom01 · 22 replies
    The Claremont Institute ^ | April 30, 2025 | John Eastman
    Washington, D.C.—The Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, led by Dr. John Eastman, submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in support of President Trump’s executive order, Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, and related legal challenges disputing an expansive interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Birthright Citizenship Clause.Three separate activist judges have blocked this lawful executive order, their rulings resting on the premise that children born in the United States to parents here only temporarily or unlawfully are automatic citizens.Our brief demonstrates that the Fourteenth Amendment was understood to grant citizenship only to those born in...
  • Trump wants voters to prove citizenship. Arizona tried that and bungled it.

    05/01/2025 7:22:49 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 22 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | May 1, 2025 5:00 a.m. EDT | Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Patrick Marley
    The state requires voters to prove their citizenship. An error led to chaos, suspicion and confusion, signaling broader challenges for Republican-led efforts across the country.PHOENIX — For 30 years, no one questioned Danny Dobosz’s citizenship when the lifelong Republican cast his ballot. So when a letter arrived from a local election official last month asking him to send back a copy of his birth certificate to prove he was an American citizen who was eligible to vote, he tossed it in the trash at his home in Yuma, Arizona. Dobosz, an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump who was born...