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Samantha Bee Returns! And She Has Stuff to Say About the State of the Shutdown

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge1/24/2019 2:21:02 pm PST

re: #231 HappyWarrior

Did they ask the same question of the GOP who had people including the now President that wanted to reverse a century and change of precedent on citizenship law.

More than that. The 14th Amendment basically just reversed the Dred Scott decision. For the first time ever, there was a substantial population that weren’t citizens, even though they were born here. The 14th took care of that, but birthright citizenship was baked into English Common Law for centuries before there was a United States—and if the wingnuts are about anything, it’s English Common law. That and Jesus wrote the King James Bible in English.