• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Republicans have just over 50% of the Senate and the House. They don’t have a 2/3 supermajority.

    They’ll still pass the legislation by voting in a block, but they can’t push it through without a vote if they don’t have a supermajority.

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      2 months ago

      2/3rds 2/3rds and 3/4ths are the requirements for a constitutional amendment, which is the requirement to change the citizenship granting mechanism for the country.

      Or for SCOTUS to just decide the words mean something different now like a true ‘originalist’

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        2 months ago

        Their plan is to claim that the children of undocumented immigrants are somehow not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore not granted citizenship based on the 14th amendment.

        Yes, it really is as stupid as it sounds; claiming that undocumented immigration gives your descendants the equivalent of diplomatic immunity.