Now Trump Wants Ownership of Your Kids
First they came for the undocumented, but soon it will be anyone who questions.
The 14th Amendment is not complicated. It was written to be simple on purpose.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.
All. Not some. Not the ones with the right parents. Not the ones whose mothers arrived with the correct paperwork. All. The men who wrote that word had just finished a war that killed 620,000 Americans. They chose it deliberately. They put it in the Constitution — not a statute, not an executive order — because they understood that citizenship is the foundational right. The right, as Chief Justice Earl Warren once wrote, to have rights. And they understood that any government that can define citizenship can un-define it.
Trump knows this. That’s the point.
On April 1 — and yes, April Fool’s Day, feel free to sit with that — the Supreme…
