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It's worse than that.

This is, I believe, the fourth or fifth amendment to the Constitution that has been hand-waved away once it became inconvenient. Birthright citizenship is no longer a thing. Due Process is no longer a thing. Insurrectionists can run for President. Freedom of the Press can be invalidated by executive order. The US Constitution isn't even secondary to federal policy. It's been successfully relegated to a really old piece of paper with some guidelines that can be ignored at will. Our elected officials have made the repeated and affirmative decision to not enforce or defend the Constitution of the United States, and our Supreme Court has given them their blessing to do just that. With nobody willing or able to enforce, uphold, and defend the Constitution, it has all the practical legal weight of a Dr. Seuss book.

And yes, the rule of law is long gone. It's been replaced with Trump's Supreme-Court-Endorsed policy of "I'll do what I want, because fuck you that's why.". Stephen Miller literally said as much when he told California's governor that "You have no say in this. Federal law will be enforced", and openly dared him to do something about it.

Eh, close, but that's still theoretically barely viable until the administration takes the affirmative step of saying "everybody in Denver can't vote but Rifle's cool", at which point anybody in Denver who can't get a lawyer and a court date is probably screwed,

So, yeah I guess the difference between rule of law being down for the count and democracy going into hibernation might be entirely semantic in practice

Do with that as you will

I'm going to believe a lot of people are about to realize what a bad idea this all is and keep telling people what a bad idea this all is and eventually live in a better world or get dumped in a mass grave for running my mouth. Good luck everybody.

My best guess is you'll now need to have your parents and maybe even grandparents birth certificates if they were US citizens. That would be solid proof. If you get to see a judge

Someone in this admin will try to say, "Both of your parents were born here... but their parents were here illegally so none of your citizenship counts."

I get it a lot with political questions.

It's also a very bold assumption of mine that they would try to do anything more than the status quo even if they did manage to retake power, predicated on the Democratic Party being massively reformed. If there was ever a time to reform the Dems, that's right now, years before midterms or a US general election.

And that you know, they'll see this person profile in a niche social network.

He can't. He has to vote for unconstitutional Trump shit to return the favors.