Some of these republican candidates are making it easy to be winnowed
out of consideration for the presidency.
Birthright citizenship eliminated over half of them and now we have a
Kentucky county clerk jailed for exercising her First Amendment rights and
defying a lawless federal judiciary.
Gov. Chris Christie has eliminated himself on both counts. Here is his excuse for allowing birthright
citizenship:
Christie: It’s in the Constitution and I don’t think we
should be looking to change it. Now, what I said was, if we wanted to have
comprehensive immigrant reform, I’d be willing to listen to anything. But the
truth of the matter is that it’s not something that, that’s not something that
we should be focused on, that is an applause line. The fact is that it is in
the Constitution, let’s talk about the things we can fix, and fix simply
without having to amend the Constitution where we would need two-thirds of the
Congress and 38 states to agree.
Birthright citizenship for foreign nationals and
their anchor babies is not in the Constitution.
I’m tired of politicians and media pundits perpetuating this lie. The citizenship clause was designed to
protect ex-slaves and their progeny. That’s
it!
Here is Gov. Christie’s response to the jailing
of a Kentucky county clerk:
Earlier Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie said Davis should be given another government job, because those
licenses “have to be issued” under the law.
“People have a
right to practice their religion,” Christie said on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday
morning. “Now, I’ve said what I would do with this woman is to move her to
another job where this is not an objection for her. Because you have to follow
the law — and the law has to be these licenses have to be issued.”
“I think we should give her
an option to do another job where her religious concerns are not going to be
put into the cross hairs on this. So we have to have respect for people, but
the government also has to function,” Christie said, adding that fellow 2016
Republican candidates shouldn’t “play politics” with the case.
Do we have to remind Gov.
Christie that Kim Davis is an elected official?
Maybe a federal judge can find him a new job too. How about janitor? I’m sure a black robed thug can divine that
in the 14th Amendment as well.
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