In the wake of a Ninth Circuit Judge overruling his executive order that disestablishes birthright citizenship and provides that those born here illegally are no longer United States citizens, President Trump sounded off on Truth Social and argued that the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment is so absurd that the Founders are spinning in their graves.
The Fourteenth Amendment’s relevant section, for reference, provides that all those who are born here are citizens. It says, specifically, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
President Trump, in any case, posting about the matter on Truth Social, noted that the current interpretation of that section is ridiculous, as it was clearly meant to be a provision ensuring citizenship for former slaves and their future descendants, not an unlimited grant of citizenship to anyone born here.
Beginning his post on Truth Social abou the amendment and ruling, said, “The 14th Amendment Right of American Citizenship never had anything to do with modern day “gate crashers,” illegal immigrants who break the Law by being in our Country, it had everything to do with giving Citizenship to former slaves.”
Continuing, he got to the line about the Founders spinning in their graves over the issue, and indicated he expects leftist judges to not bend to leftist anger and instead show some bravery in shutting down the current interpretation. He said, “Our Founding Fathers are “spinning in their graves” at the idea that our Country can be taken away from us. No Nation in the World has anything like this. Our lawyers and Judges have to be tough, and protect America!”
The latest ruling, the fourth that strikes down the executive order about birthright citizenship, was issued by U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin last week. In the ruling, Judge Sorokin said that the “Constitution confers birthright citizenship broadly, including to persons within the categories described” in the executive order.
Another judge who ruled against the order was Judge Coughenour in Seattle, a Reagan appointee from 1981, who said, commenting on the executive order’s supposed lack of legality, “I have been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as it is here. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”
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America First Vice President Dan Epstein told Fox News Digital that the problem with rulings like that of Judge Sorokin is that they ignore a key phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment: “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” which he thinks means the children of illegal immigrants and those of similar status are not US citizens.
He said, commenting about the matter of that particular phrase in the context of these to Fox News Digital, “My expectation is that this is a no-brainer. The law is clear, ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ has to mean something. So, it’s not a very hard question. It’s a very clear question and the law has a very clear answer.”