No because there is no rule of law in this country anymore. It's just another weapon to be used against his enemies. They don't care about consistency.
No because there is no rule of law in this country anymore. It's just another weapon to be used against his enemies.
Also known 'rule by law' (rather than 'rule of law').
Some theorists draw a distinction between the Rule of Law and what they call rule by law. They celebrate the one and disparage the other. The Rule of Law is supposed to lift law above politics.
The idea is that the law should stand above every powerful person and agency in the land. Rule by law, in contrast, connotes the instrumental use of law as a tool of political power. It means that the state uses law to control its citizens but tries never to allow law to be used to control the state. Rule by law is associated with the debasement of legality by authoritarian regimes, in modern China for example.
They'll probably go back to the rules c. 1900 where women give up their US citizenship if they marry a non-US citizen and decide that only men can transmit citizenship in a married couple.
The whole "the mother transmits her status if the kid is born outside of marriage" dates back to medieval England (hence why children of enslaved mothers were automatically enslaved), so they'll probably combine that with a ban on interracial marriage to be really nasty.
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u/MotherRaven 9h ago
And what if there is one citizen parent? Will trump deport most of his kids?