{"id":3417,"date":"2010-11-20T01:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T09:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2010-11-20T01:09:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T09:09:41","slug":"republicans-plan-to-dismantle-the-us-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/republicans-plan-to-dismantle-the-us-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Plan to Dismantle the US Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans love to harp on the Constitution.  They carry virgin (untouched by human eyes) copies to hold up and wave around anytime they confront an issue that they oppose.  Unfortunately for them, the Constitution opposes much of what they want to do.  They want to keep undocumented workers illegal so their corporate masters can prey on their labor and to stir up hatred in their base, so they are fronting a bizarre interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"20burning-constitution\"<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the Miami Herald reported<\/a> that \u201c[a]s one of its first acts\u201d next year, the GOP-controlled Congress will advance a bill by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) \u2014 the incoming chairman of the subcommittee that oversees immigration \u2014 that would modify the 14th amendment to deny \u201cbirthright citizenship\u201d to the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

In an interview with Fox News\u2019 Bill Hemmer this morning, King explained just how he plans to go about radically changing citizenship requirements. According to King, it doesn\u2019t involve a Constitutional amendment, but rather, simply reinterpreting the 14th amendment in a way that would treat undocumented immigrants like foreign diplomats and exclude them from being subject to the jurisdiction of U.S. laws<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

…Watch it:<\/p>\n

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King clearly doesn\u2019t understand the dangerous implications of mandating that anyone who comes to the U.S. illegally is not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. government. King\u2019s interpretation of the 14th amendment could create a situation in which, rather than being legally defined and treated as removable \u201cillegal aliens,\u201d undocumented immigrants could only be declared personae non grata<\/a> \u2014 a legal term under international law used to refer to \u201cunwelcome\u201d foreigners, usually diplomats, who are inherently under the jurisdiction of their home governments<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In their rush to depress wages for Corporocons and Plutocons, while promoting racism for the InsaniTEA wing of the party, Republicans plan to violate the Constitution by statute.  While this is clearly unconstitutional, there is always the risk that the extreme ideologues on SCOTUS will decide otherwise, with potentially tragic consequences.<\/font><\/p>\n

If the undocumented are not subject to the jurisdiction of US law, that effectively gives them immunity for any crimes they may commit here.  I\u2019m not calling them criminals, but all segments of our population include lawbreakers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans love to harp on the Constitution.  They carry virgin (untouched by human eyes) copies to hold up and wave around anytime they confront an issue that they oppose.  Unfortunately for them, the Constitution opposes much of what they want to do.  They want to keep undocumented workers illegal so their corporate masters can prey […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}