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In reply to the discussion: Looking to limit birthright citizenship, Trump turns to an 1884 Supreme Court ruling against a Native American man [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,633 posts)17. Not exactly.
The Snyder Act was a law, not a part of the constitution. So it's not stare decisis. Stare decisis is a doctrine urging the Supreme Court to be cautious in overruling its own prior decisions.
And there is no such thing as black letter constitutional law. Everything in the constitution says is always up to interpretation by the Supreme Court.
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Looking to limit birthright citizenship, Trump turns to an 1884 Supreme Court ruling against a Native American man [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Sunday
OP
Wow, had not seen your response but mine was exactly the same..."With this court?"
Escurumbele
Yesterday
#32
"if birthright citizenship is revoked, can the reinstitution of slavery still be off limits?"
BumRushDaShow
Sunday
#13
All the more reason why we must only elect Dem senators willing to kill the filibuster and expand the court
Fiendish Thingy
Sunday
#15
Roe was focused on enforcement of the PRIVATE right for women to choose what to do with her own body
BumRushDaShow
Yesterday
#30
That's because Biden wanted to wait on the report from the bipartisan commission on court reform
Fiendish Thingy
Yesterday
#42
"If the constitution says two term limit for a president, it doesn't mean three"
BumRushDaShow
Yesterday
#33
If thats the story then it would seem to have zero meaning to today's case.
Callie1979
Yesterday
#31
This case in an interpretation that is consistent with how the provision has always been interpreted.
Ms. Toad
Sunday
#21
pedo and his henchmen should move to Tx or Fl and let the rest of us get our country back
Marthe48
Yesterday
#40