Republicans are at it again, and it’s hard to overstate how chilling this is and what it tells you about the direction people in this Party want to take America.Texas Congressman Chip Roy is preparing to introduce legislation he’s calling the “MAMDANI Act,” named after Zohran Mamdani, the recently e...
This initiative is (so far) threatening naturalized citizens, not born citizens.
The 14th amendment specifies that naturalized citizens are full-fledged citizens, that there’s no legal way to cleave them off as some special subclass. In a sane world that paid more than lip service to the constitution, this this kind of harassment wouldn’t fly at all.
Indeed. Its a clear violation of equal protection without even considering the OBVIOUS violation of the first amendment.
The Supreme Court: “Ah, but what would ‘equal protection’ mean, to a 16th century Englishman?”