Sergey Stankevich
Donald Trump wins several times a day in his own words. Usually it’s a bluff and bravado.
But sometimes he does have real victories.
He just had two at once.
In domestic politics:
Trump received a “gift” from the Supreme Court. By a 6:3 vote, the Court ruled that federal district judges in individual states
do not have the right to suspend the president’s executive orders in relation to the entire country
This is a very hot topic. The reason was a dispute over the right to obtain US citizenship by birth. The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, adopted shortly after the Civil War (1868), states: “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.”
It would seem that everything is clear: you were born here and you are already a citizen. No, says Trump: it says here “and the jurisdictions thereof.” That is, the birth must occur to a mother legally present in the United States. Two conditions must coincide: birth on the territory and the legality of the mother’s presence. Legal citizens are not born to parents who entered the United States illegally.
The flames of a major political battle have flared up around this topic. Millions of children are born to illegal immigrants who enter the United States by any means, and Trump has banned them from being automatically registered as citizens by his decree: let them apply for naturalization and prove their rights. Until now, federal district judges in states (usually Democrats) could, at the request of one aggrieved immigrant, suspend the effect of the president’s executive order in relation to the entire country — until the judge considers the case on the merits.
Now the US Supreme Court has ruled: an order can be suspended at the state level in relation to a specific plaintiff, but not for the entire country.
A big win for Donald Trump!
The influx of illegals into the citizenry (and into the Democratic Party) will be sharply reduced: illegals generally do not go to court. But Trump is now free from judicial blockade on other issues as well.
Until now, the “democratic” judges blocked his orders with their suspensive stays and tied his hands and feet. Now he will be free to roam.
In foreign policy:
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, citing the War Powers Act of 1973, introduced a resolution to require the president to obtain the consent of both houses of Congress before the US military could take further military action against Iran.
The resolution was rejected 47:53, Democrats versus Republicans.
So Trump, if he wants, “can repeat” the strike on Iran.
Dmitri Drobnitsky
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