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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

Wait ... Doesn't "citizenship" mean where you're born?

It's either where you're born or where you live. Which is it?

Wtf even is citizenship then?

"I'm from Ireland" is synonymous with "I'm Irish"... Right?

So if you're born in America, wouldn't you... Be American?

If he takes that away, you aren't just magically from nowhere, you're still American.

This is stupid and makes no sense, it's all just classism and racism. I hate everything.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 10 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Its the same as the election between Obama and McCain, in ways a lot of people dont realize.

Obama, by virtue of having a non-traditional name and not being white, was hounded by birthers despite being born an American citizen clear as day with absolutely no question about it.

McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone the year before people born in the canal zone were granted citizenship at birth. Arguably he was not a citizen at birth under the definitional requirements of the constitution to be president. He was naturalized as a citizen retroactively.

Palin is part native, and was pretty heavily involved with Alaska Native movements that rejected US sovereignty and thereby rejected claims to citizenship. But no one talked about that either because shes also largely seen as just being a white American.

And yet Obama, who was American thru and thru from birth without question, never was involved with Hawaiian sovereignty movements, is the one whos citizenship was questioned.

“White makes right” is the rule of law to these people

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Most people are citizens of where they also live and give birth so this distinction doesn't come up in most cases. But for children born to immigrants or travelers it does.

Citizenship can either be assigned by where you were born, or who you were born to.

Birthright citizenship, as we use the term in the US, is mostly a new world invention. In nearly all countries in the americas, any children born here are citizens without exception. No matter the parents, no matter the circumstances.

In the old world, most countries require a parent to be a citizen in order for the child to also be a citizen.

Generally if an american couple gives birth in Europe, the child will just be american, despite where they were born. If a European couple gives birth in any of the americas, their child will be a citizen of the americas, despite anything else

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Furthermore aren't, at least some of, his kids from ? The youngest psychopath is definitely of imported genetics, does that mean the next oppositional president (ha, like Fatboy is ever going to let go of all that power now he's king of the us) could kick all tRUMPs offspring out?

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 25 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

At what point does everyone say "if he's not following the law, then neither should we"?

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Guilty. I've stolen 2 elections already and dogwhistled so much

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

so it was YOU!!

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

I'm ready if you are

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

This title isn’t true. The court has not “given the OK”

[–] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 minutes ago

The supreme court did give the ok saying that it comes down to states and individuals to stop it.

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 hours ago

Right, they only said "nobody can stop you from doing illegal things."

Completely different.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 hours ago

I'm curious if this means that certain cities or states will become citizenship havens because their local courts decided to provide injunctions for their jurisdiction.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 61 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (8 children)

Lest we forget:

Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1:

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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Pretty hard to argue that “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” doesn’t mean what it clearly states. It’s not even in legalese. The fact that this wasn’t laughed out of court says everything.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

No state shall....but the feds can?

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

They haven’t decided on the legality of it yet. They just decided that courts cannot issue universal injunctions. They can only stop it at a case by case level for those who are suing. If they decide it’s unconstitutional, then it’ll have to stop nationally, but a lot of damage can be done before then. I think they’ll decide in October…

That's what the Constitution says, and Trump now has nothing that can legally stop him from doing it.

Which means the Constitution is dead letter.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

It is just a fucking piece of paper.

If the judges and politicians and police don't care and no one else can do anything then it means nothing.

It is this or bloody revolution and that would lead to the US being invaded by multiple other countries and shit getting worse and worse.

North Korea of America is where we are now.

Uggh. I can work out whether to upvote you for the accurate summary of the source of law & state power or downvote you for the utter idiocy of the invasion statement.

Russia can't - they're struggling to take over a country a fifth their size and have burnt through their Soviet stockpiles.

UK & EU certainly won't invade, at most they'd send a peacekeeping force to protect civilians at a UN request (UN probably wouldnt pass it)

Canada will be stretched just keeping fighting out of its borders.

Mexico might just on principle (payback's a bitch) but has bugger all capacity.

Same for South American Asian and African countries.

That leaves China, and if you think the Chinese are stupid enough to insert themselves in your civil war and create a sole enemy for both sides to fight you have zero understanding of the Chinese strategy.

The Chinese will wait for you all to decimate the country and each other, then come in and buy up the bits they want. Oh and invade Taiwan while y'all are busy destroying your country.

Putin's plan to destroy the US has worked magnificently.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It is this or bloody revolution and that would lead to the US being invaded by multiple other countries and shit getting worse and worse.

No other nations are going to be invading the US, let alone multiple of them. They don't have the logistics for it.

Or the desire, who the hell would want to try a hostile occupation of the US ?

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 4 points 5 hours ago

That’s technically not what they ruled on

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[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago

This is fucking Stephen Miller's Nazi wet dream

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I’d like to pay a reporter to ask Trump how it feels to wipe his ass with the Constitution. I’d think it would be coarse and unpleasant, but he keeps doing it.

Ill just stick with Charmin or whatever.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 points 4 hours ago

Trump will then happily show his new line of merchandise. One is his "We The People" line of toilet paper. There's also his "Smooth Criminal" line, extra soft toilet paper with the entire criminal law printed on it.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 80 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

So literally what happened here is Trump said, "I want to violate the Constitution" and the Supreme Court said, " Okay — go ahead."

And that's it for the rule of law in the US.

All that's left now is to tally the mass murders along the way to the inevitable collapse of the US, and to hope that our descendents can build something better out of the rubble.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

The US collapsing is going to absolutely affect the rest of the world. This is very VERY bad.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

That’s not literally what happened at all. Trump said, “I want to violate the constitution and issued an order”. Then states cities and organizations sued across three cases and courts issued universal injunctions. Trump said “wah! Help me puppet kourt!” Then the Supreme Court was like, “be still mein führer. We will not allow these injunctions to apply to the entire nation. Only to those who have sued.”

They gave him second base. Let’s see if they go all the way for Don Don.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not a USer so correct me if wrong here, but is the implication then that something can be considered constitutional in one state but not in another? How does that work?

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 53 minutes ago

It doesn’t. The ruling makes little sense and is just showing that playing the game with absolutely no ethics works very well.

[–] mienshao@lemm.ee 137 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

This is the final nail in the coffin of the Constitution. As a lawyer for the federal government, I need everyone to know that this officially marks the end of United States rule of law. Protect yourselves, and godspeed.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 9 hours ago

Billionaires and politicians. No one else matters. Don't be distracted by the broke Nazis at ICE. The true threat numbers in the hundreds.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 39 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Oh look. One of the things we said would happen, happened.

Thank God 88 million people skipped their final chance to vote in protest, apathy, stupidity, or all three. Boy that sure showed us!

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

At least your party didn't have to stop selling weapons for genocide.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

But don't you see? By losing, we sent a message to the Democratic Party leadership and now they're totally moving left!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

thier response is to moving right

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Time for guillotines

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 points 5 hours ago

all those cuomo endorsements really show they’re willing to listen

[–] uss_entrepreneur@startrek.website 26 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

As much as I dislike the decision, they did not give the “ok”

The ruling was about how the lower courts handle injunctions. The court cases are playing out still.

I still hate the decision.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago

Effectively, anyone who does not have a lawyer who files a specific suit in a very short period of time can be deported at will. Saying it does not end the 14th Amendment is an exercise in English language mechanics, not in how it ends up affecting the world.

If you are high school student who is shipped off to a foreign prison, how likely do you think it is somebody will fight to bring you back?

[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 7 hours ago

Bunch of pansies. All they had to do is say No

And would have been the end of it. But they are scared of him for w/e reason. Trump can't even remember Barrett.

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 hours ago

On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order federal agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States who do not have at least one parent who is an American citizen or lawful permanent resident, also called a "green card" holder.

So is this retroactive? Do states that are not challenging take effect in 30 days? Who the fuck knows. Make sure to do jack shit to stop all of this.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-may-rule-allowing-enforcement-trump-birthright-citizenship-2025-06-27/

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