Why Trump's Victory Over Federal Judges Spells Doom For Cruz & Rubio
When "birthright citizenship" is nuked, what will the GOP do with Rubio & Cruz who may not even be citizens!
So one of the big takeaways from the ruling today in Casa versus Trump is that after the case is finally heard on birthright citizenship and the Scotus rules for Trump and against birthright citizenship, and that the 14th amendment was never intended for the children of people that were in the United States at the time of their children’s birth, who were citizens of other countries.
Conservatives aren’t realizing the dramatic consequences of this in presidential politics.
Take the example of Kamala Harris. She was born of a visiting citizen of India, her mother, and a visiting citizen of Jamaica, her father, her father returned to Jamaica and never even attempted to become a U.S. citizen her mother, at some point in time became a citizen, and we don’t know whether or not little Kamala ever actually applied to be naturalized as a result of her mother’s naturalization, she is an ASSUMED "birthright citizen", so here’s the take away: by definition, Kamala Harris was born of two citizens of foreign countries so at the time of her birth, if you remove "birthright citizenship", and she stays here for any length of time and then ultimately she’s gonna get into politics and then run for the Presidency under no one‘s definition of “Natural Born Citizen“ is Kamala Harris, or anyone else in this situation, a Natural, Born Citizen [under Vattel's Law of Nations, NBC means born jus sanguinis, lierally: law of blood, OF a Naturalized citizen Father], they can’t be!
The best body of work on this subject was done by my old friend who's pen name is "Publius Huldah" in her massive research paper on this subject:
The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew
Publius Huldah explaining Natural Born Citizens as the Founding Father's understood it AND wrote it into The U.S. Constitution.
This would also apply to Ted Cruz, who is born in Canada of a Cuban father Ted Cruz in 1970 while Rafael Cruz was still a Cuban citizen, therefore could not possibly be a Natural Born Citizen (and no, under jus sanguinis or jus solei - law of the soil, Cruz is not an NBC because citizenship, under Vattel, is strictly limited to Paternity)!
"… I am much obliged by the kind present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when the circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult the law of nations. Accordingly that copy, which I kept, (after depositing one in our own public library here, and sending the other to the College of Massachusetts Bay, as you directed,) has been continually in the hands of the members of our Congress, now sitting, who are much pleased with your notes and preface, and have entertained a high and just esteem for their author…" - Ben Franklin to Charles Dumas, 9 December, 1775, thanking him for providing a copy of Vattel's Law of Nations.
This will also apply to Marco Rubio at the time of his birth, in 1971, his parents were still Cuban citizens and they were not yet naturalized (they were naturalized in 1975) so, post SCOTUS ruling on "birthright citizenship", he would not be considered a "birthright citizen".
When his parents were naturalized they could have applied for a little Marco to become a citizen (did they? and that's not an indictment, I just don't know the answer), but that by default again makes him, by jus sanguinis, not a Natural Born Citizen, and he can’t run for the presidency!
Many MAGA faithful will be shocked and some, angered, by the above and I don't bear them ill will or blame them, our education on the actual history of The United States and of the Founding Father generation and their work is abominable.
I pray that President Trump understands the implications of his glorious fight for a correct understanding of U.S. citizenship and how that precious gift is earned!
There’s 2 more more points to be made on this CASA ruling, the first is the clickbaiters are all stopping their low-rent commentary after they set off your endorphins and turn you into a rabid teenage pleasure fiend in the blue highlighted area below.
Read that entire passage and especially the footnote to learn what the Notorious ACB thinks about Justice Jackson “running on empty” Brown: she doesn’t deserve the title or to be making decisions on the SCOTUS. This becomes crystal clear (if it’s not already) when you read comes after the footnote.
I asked my wife what she thought of this and she said said, verbatim
“That’s not passive aggressive, that’s aggressive aggressive!”
I believe you can read between the lines here and hear Justice Barrett saying amongst the majority.
“I’ve about had it with this constant emotional guilt tripping and superiority complex, wrapped up in these arguments that are barely legal! WTH!?”
I’m probably not packing enough of a punch into this because Barrett’s use of language aimed at a specific Justice, to a lay person, seems unprecedented. And point 2 is this, Justices Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh all wrote concurring opinions with each admonishing the Federal Judges that brought about this very decision to not try and invent any legal trickery to perform an end-around this decision and its finality with Justice Gorsuch pledging that the Court will be “dutybound” to uphold this ruling.
Lower courts should carefully heed this Court’s guidance and cabin their grants of injunctive relief in light of historical equitable limits. If they cannot do so, this Court will continue to be “dutybound” to intervene.
All in all, if you voted for Trump and his agenda in toto, this was a day you have been waiting for since the first Federal Judge tried to play President on January 22nd, 2025.
MAGA!