Easter celebrates Jesus’ supernatural resurrection from the dead, which is one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith.[46] Paul writes that, for those who trust in Jesus’s death and resurrection, “death is swallowed up in victory”. The First Epistle of Peter declares that God has given believers “a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”. Christian theology holds that, through faith in the working of God, those who follow Jesus are spiritually resurrected with him so that they may walk in a new way of life and receive eternal salvation, and can hope to be physically resurrected to dwell with him in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Easter is linked to Passover and the Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper, sufferings, and crucifixion of Jesus that preceded the resurrection.According to the three Synoptic Gospels, Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning, as in the upper room during the Last Supper he prepared himself and his disciples for his death.[41] He identified the bread and cup of wine as his body, soon to be sacrificed, and his blood, soon to be shed. The Apostle Paul states in his First Epistle to the Corinthians: “Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.” This refers to the requirement in Jewish law that Jews eliminate all chametz, or leavening, from their homes in advance of Passover, and to the allegory of Jesus as the Passover lamb.
The birthright citizenship debate exploded back into the national discourse this week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning it.
Trump’s ban was slated to take effect on Feb. 19, but a federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked the order. Some experts believe the issue will eventually be settled by the Supreme Court.
Should the ban eventually go into force, it would likely impact tens of thousands of children born to the parents of illegal immigrants.
Below is a previous post concerning the 14th Amendment, read it and come to your own conclusion.
By my count–so far–Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry and the entire Fox News commentariat are unfamiliar with a period of the nation’s history known as “the Civil War.” They seem to believe that the post-Civil War amendments were designed to ensure that the children of illegal aliens would be citizens, “anchor babies,” who can then bring in the whole family. (You wouldn’t want to break up families, would you?)
As FNC’s Bill O’Reilly authoritatively informed Donald Trump on Tuesday night: “The 14th Amendment says if you’re born here, you’re an American!”
I cover anchor babies in about five pages of my book, Adios, America, but apparently Bill O’Reilly and the rest of the scholars on Fox News aren’t what we call “readers.”
Still, how could anyone–even a not-very-bright person–imagine that granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens is actually in our Constitution? I know the country was exuberant after the war, but I really don’t think our plate was so clear that Americans were consumed with passing a constitutional amendment to make illegal aliens’ kids citizens.
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“Luckily,” as FNC’s Shannon Bream put it Monday night, Fox had an “expert” to explain the details: Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox’s senior judicial analyst.
Napolitano at least got the century right. He mentioned the Civil War–and then went on to inform Bream that the purpose of the 14th Amendment was to–I quote–“make certain that the former slaves and the native Americans would be recognized as American citizens no matter what kind of prejudice there might be against them.”
Huh. In 1884, 16 years after the 14th Amendment was ratified, John Elk, who–as you may have surmised by his name–was an Indian, had to go to the Supreme Court to argue that he was an American citizen because he was born in the United States.
He lost. In Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94, the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment did not grant Indians citizenship.
The “main object of the opening sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the court explained–and not for the first or last time–“was to settle the question, upon which there had been a difference of opinion throughout the country and in this court, as to the citizenship of free negroes and to put it beyond doubt that all persons, white or black . . . should be citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside.”
American Indians were not made citizens until 1924. Lo those 56 years after the ratification of the 14th Amendment, Indians were not American citizens, despite the considered opinion of Judge Napolitano.
Of course it’s easy for legal experts to miss the welter of rulings on Indian citizenship inasmuch as they obtained citizenship in a law perplexingly titled: “THE INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT OF 1924.”
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The only reason the 14th Amendment doesn’t just come out and say “black people” is that–despite our Constitution being the product of vicious racists, who were dedicated to promoting white privilege and keeping down the black man (Hat tip: Ta-Nehisi Coates)–the Constitution never, ever mentions race.
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On one hand, we have noted legal expert Bill O’Reilly haranguing Donald Trump: “YOU WANT ME TO QUOTE YOU THE AMENDMENT??? IF YOU’RE BORN HERE YOU’RE AN AMERICAN. PERIOD! PERIOD!” (No, Bill–there’s no period. More like: “comma,” to parents born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States “and of the state wherein they reside.”)
But on the other hand, we have Justice John Marshall Harlan II, who despite not being a Fox News legal expert, was no slouch. He wrote in the 1967 case, Afroyim v. Rusk, that the sponsors of the 14th Amendment feared that:
“Unless citizenship were defined, freedmen might, under the reasoning of the Dred Scott decision, be excluded by the courts from the scope of the amendment. It was agreed that, since the ‘courts have stumbled on the subject,’ it would be prudent to remove the ‘doubt thrown over’ it. The clause would essentially overrule Dred Scott and place beyond question the freedmen’s right of citizenship because of birth.”
It is true that in a divided 1898 case, U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, with certain exceptions, such as for diplomats. But that decision was so obviously wrong, even the Yale Law Journal ridiculed it.
The majority opinion relied on feudal law regarding citizenship in a monarchy, rather than the Roman law pertaining to a republic–the illogic of which should be immediately apparent to American history buffs, who will recall an incident in our nation’s history known as “the American Revolution.”
Citizenship in a monarchy was all about geography–as it is in countries bristling with lords and vassals, which should not be confused with this country. Thus, under the majority’s logic in Wong Kim Ark, children born to American parents traveling in England would not be American citizens, but British subjects.
As ridiculous as it was to grant citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants under the 14th Amendment (which was about what again? That’s right: slaves freed by the Civil War), that’s a whole order of business different from allowing illegal aliens to sneak across the border, drop a baby and say, Ha-ha! You didn’t catch me! My kid’s a citizen–while Americans curse impotently under their breath.
As the Supreme Court said in Elk: “[N]o one can become a citizen of a nation without its consent.”
The anchor baby scam was invented 30 years ago by a liberal zealot, Justice William Brennan, who slipped a footnote into a 1982 Supreme Court opinion announcing that the kids born to illegals on U.S. soil are citizens. Fox News is treating Brennan’s crayon scratchings on the Constitution as part of our precious national inheritance.
Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals is America’s most-cited federal judge–and, by the way, no friend to conservatives. In 2003, he wrote a concurrence simply in order to demand that Congress pass a law to stop “awarding citizenship to everyone born in the United States.”
The purpose of the 14th Amendment, he said, was “to grant citizenship to the recently freed slaves,” adding that “Congress would not be flouting the Constitution” if it passed a law “to put an end to the nonsense.”
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Our history and our Constitution are being perverted for the sole purpose of dumping immigrants on the country to take American jobs. So far, only Donald Trump is defending black history on the issue of the 14th Amendment. Fox News is using black people as a false flag to keep cheap Third World labor flowing.
Apparently our dumb politicians, judges included (Brennan) don’t understand the meaning of “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” A foreign national is still subject to the laws of his own country, period. “Get that liberal”
Justice Kagan takes no prisoners, says illegal must go. Just wondering if she is sick and tired of illegals murdering Americans.
Justice Kagan denies emergency appeal to halt deportation of Mexican nationals claiming asylum from cartel. Kagan letting removal proceed without Court review.
The petitioners, Fabian Lagunas Espinoza, Maria Angelica Flores Ulloa and their two sons, were ordered to report to immigration officials on Thursday. Their legal team argued they face cartel violence if returned to Mexico.
That’s right, this Uppity attorney general is now hunting for attorneys who will supposedly defend her against, mortgage fraud. This lady is going down like the cheap whores she allowed to roam the streets of Manhattan. The irony here is how things seem to even out. Imagine committing the same crime she accused Trump of. Throw the book at her; send her to the Iron Bar Hotel. She needs to meet Mrs. Bubba.
So, Biden’s executive order gets a go, Tump’s reversal gets a no. Time to impeach these bastards. They will soon get overturned by the SOTUS, just like Boesberg did. Judges don’t make foreign policy, the President of the United States does. See you in court, lunatic.
Iran is the Mother of All Liars. They were caught with their pants down by Israel whose midnight raid resulted in a cacaphony of their nuclear plans. They have continued to ramp up their nuclear capabilities by running their centrifuses 24/7. Now, and suddenly, they have come to the table to negotiate a new deal. Our reply is to them, yes, we will sign a new deal, but we want to inspect every one of your sites. Say no, then the deal is off.
Yemen’s Houthis launch missile, triggering sirens from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Iran’s proxies continue to launch missiles at Israel. This must stop if the negotiation proceeds. Houthis are a danger to the world, not only Israel, but all of those who use international waterways.
As U.S. and Iran begin nuclear talks amid fresh sanctions, can there be a deal?
Tehran has said the discussions in Oman over the weekend will be indirect after President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement earlier this week of “direct” negotiations.
Israel, which views Iran as an existential threat, and the U.S. see Iran as a rogue regime intent on pursuing weapons of mass destruction that will stop at little to undermine its opponents.
Iran‘s leadership, meanwhile, faces a choice between giving up its nuclear aspirations, which would most likely render it more vulnerable in the long run, or continuing along the path of nuclear development and dramatically raise the risk of an attack from Israel and the U.S.
Hanging over discussions in the Gulf kingdom of Oman will be Trump‘s threat that if the talks fail to yield results, “Iran is going to be in great danger.” Trump has threatened to bomb Iran if it refuses to strike a deal on the future of its nuclear program.
The bid to end Iran’s nuclear program is one that Trump has resumed from his first term, when he pulled the U.S. out of the landmark 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Under the JCPOA, Iran agreed to dismantle much of its nuclear program and allow inspections of its facilities in exchange for sanctions relief.
Trump withdrew from the JCPOA because, he said, it was a “horrible one-sided deal” that did not address Tehran’s ballistic missile program nor its network of proxies throughout the region. The U.S. move infuriated the Iranian government after it had adhered to the terms the agreement signed with the Obama administration and five other world powers.
Saturday’s talks also come after repeatedwarnings from Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, that Iran was “dramatically” accelerating its enrichment of uranium up to 60% purity, inching closer to the around 90% level that constitutes weapons grade.
The U.S. military will take control of a strip of federal land that spans three states along the southern border in an effort to stem illegal immigration, a memorandum Friday by President Donald Trump said.
The memorandum, “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions,” directs the secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security “to provide for the use and jurisdiction by the Department of Defense over such Federal lands, including the Roosevelt Reservation and excluding Federal Indian Reservations, that are reasonably necessary to enable military activities.”
He wrote it could include “border-barrier construction and emplacement of detection and monitoring equipment.”
“Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats,” Trump wrote in the memorandum. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past.”
The federal land, which consists of a narrow, 60-foot-deep strip at the border within the Roosevelt Reservation, would become a “military installation” designated as “National Defense Areas” where “military activities” would occur.
The Roosevelt Reservation covers California, New Mexico and Arizona and was designated as federal land by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 to keep the border secure.
Doesn’t care of Ilegal killed an American citizen. She takes the top prize in the floozie runoff. Laken Riley was a beautiful woman, studying to be a nurse, but murdered in cold blood. CT Representative Hayes doesn’t care one red cent about her.
Laken Riley was killed by a criminal who broke into our homeland because of Biden and his Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas allowed this POS to enter our country. He murdered in cold blood, nursing student Laken Riley. She is our daughter, your daughter,
America’s daughter.
One must not forget In 2017, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an undocumented immigrant, was found not guilty of the murder of Kate Steinle. Steinle was shot and killed on a San Francisco pier in 2015. The case became highly politicized and sparked an immigration debate.
Number two was Senator Chris Murphy, a Floozee from the Get-go. Murphy says that Democracy was at stake because of Trump’s policies. Apparently, his brain has been vacuumed by the Biden administration. For instance, they brow beet the Social Media and Fake News to squash the Hunter Biden laptop. However, that is not all, he propelled the Russian Hoax.
Sen. Chris Murphy said Democrats would most likely need to start planning for mass demonstrations in order to oppose President Donald Trump. Murphy made the remarks during a town hall at Westhill High School in Stamford on Friday.
“I think the threat to our democracy is real,” Murphy said. “It is acute. I think it is very likely you are going to need hundreds of thousands of people engaged in mass-scale mobilization.”
Several Democratic voters and audience members complained about the response from Murphy’s Democratic Senate colleagues to Trump’s executive orders and actions since he took office.
Several of Trump’s orders on immigration to mass firings of federal employees have either been challenged in federal court over their legality, or will soon be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Murphy said Democrats are planning a response, but said it will almost assuredly require mass participation from all segments of civil society.
However, some voters remain unconvinced, disheartened by what they say is a lack of direction from the Democratic Party toward themselves.
Erin Shaw, an independent voter from New Canaan, said a mass protest movement appears to be the only way to oppose Trump, but does not think Democrats are prepared to lead those efforts.
“I don’t think they know what to do, and they are in effect, powerless, and I think it’s going to come down to how many people can get out there and try to precipitate change,” Shaw said.
FORGOT TO MENTION, BOTH ARE DEMOCRATS. DID YOU EXPECT ANYTHING ELSE?
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But all is not lost, although the train has left the station, full steam ahead, it will make many stops along the way. Whatever your philosophy is, you can’t argue that Gold has stood the test of time. But don’t forget that the Almighty Dollar is not good as gold, soon it will become worthless paper.
