So now they tell us the Constitution is fixed and unviolable. Guess it’s not nearly as much of a “living document” as they’ve led people to believe:
HuffPo Legal Affairs Writer: Amending the Constitution Is Unconstitutional
Key figures in the crowded Republican field have spoken loud and clear about their desire to do away with birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants.
Donald Trump went a step further Tuesday when he said in a CNN interview that children born to immigrants under the present constitutional order “do not have American citizenship.”
In other words, the citizenship they were born with is invalid, a notion Trump said he’d be willing to “test out” in a court of law.
But one needs not go that far.
It turns out that the very idea of amending the Constitution to end birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants — a move that squarely targets Latinos — would probably be found unconstitutional.
That’s right. This guy thinks amending the Constitution is unconstitutional. He thinks that a 28th Amendment outlawing birthright citizenship would violate . . . the 14th Amendment.
One wonders if he thinks the Amendment undoing Prohibition was unconstitutional, because it violated the Amendment instituting Prohibition.