It costs a minimum of $50,000 to present a bill in the California legislature. Recently the Democrats introduced a Resolution supporting “birthright” citizenship—the U.S. is the ONLY nation in the world with this scam. The resolution when passed will go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Does anyone believe the Justices will even read, or care, what a bunch of anti-Constitutionalists think? Why is California in a massive deficit? Because Democrats love to flush our tax dollars down the bidet.
“The Assembly Judiciary Committee passed Assembly Joint Resolution 5, opposing Trump’s order seeking to reinterpret the 14th Amendment. The amendment, passed in the wake of the Civil War, grants citizenship to all people born in the country and subject to its laws.
The resolution now advances to the Assembly floor.
“Every person born in the United States is a United States citizen,” said Assemblymember Alex Lee, a San Jose Democrat and author of the resolution.
Trump on his first day in office signed an executive order to stop birthright citizenship for children born to a mother who’s in the country illegally or here legally but only temporarily, as well as to children to a father who’s not a citizen and not a legal resident.”
When you have the Constitutional illiterate Sacramento Democrats, who needs a Supreme Court. They are totalitarians.
California legislators advance resolution supporting birthright citizenship
A federal judge has called President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship “blatantly unconstitutional,” and the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the case next week.
Alan Riquelmy, Courthousenews, 5/6/25 https://www.courthousenews.com/california-legislators-advance-resolution-supporting-birthright-citizenship/
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California lawmakers on Tuesday formally denounced an executive order by President Donald Trump that seeks to undo birthright citizenship.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee passed Assembly Joint Resolution 5, opposing Trump’s order seeking to reinterpret the 14th Amendment. The amendment, passed in the wake of the Civil War, grants citizenship to all people born in the country and subject to its laws.
The resolution now advances to the Assembly floor.
“Every person born in the United States is a United States citizen,” said Assemblymember Alex Lee, a San Jose Democrat and author of the resolution.
Trump on his first day in office signed an executive order to stop birthright citizenship for children born to a mother who’s in the country illegally or here legally but only temporarily, as well as to children to a father who’s not a citizen and not a legal resident.
“The 14th Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States,” Trump said in a statement at the time. “The 14th Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.’”
Lee argued that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a phrase that applies to the children of other countries’ ambassadors, who wouldn’t be American citizens if born here. He noted that the history of birthright citizenship has roots in English common law.
Multiple states have filed suit over Trump’s order and secured wins in court. Lee referenced U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, in the Western District of Washington, who called the order “blatantly unconstitutional.”
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on the order next week.
Jack Chin, a law professor at UC Davis, agreed with Coughenour’s assessment. He also pointed to the Nationality Act of 1940, which codified how people gain U.S. citizenship. One of the conditions is to be born on American soil.
Chin called Trump’s order an anti-immigrant measure.
Jeannette Zanipatin, with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, said the Trump administration has a strategy in its policies targeting immigrants — to see how far it can push due process rights and instill fear.
Lee called Trump’s administration “fascist,” arguing it wants to decide who qualifies as a citizen.
“My parents were not both citizens when I was born,” Lee said, noting that he wouldn’t be American if Trump’s order was in place at his birth. “This is clearly another attack on the American dream.”
Lee also referenced a federal sweep this year dubbed “Operation Return to Sender,” which targeted predominantly Latino areas of Kern County. The United Farm Workers said agents arrested people regardless of immigration status, calling it illegal.
Assemblymember Alexandra Macedo, a Tulare Republican, asked Lee which administration the sweep occurred under, quickly correcting him when he said Trump.
“This was not under the Trump administration,” Macedo said. “It was under the Biden administration.”
The Judiciary Committee on Tuesday also passed an unrelated bill to the Assembly floor. Assembly Bill 446 — introduced by Assemblymember Chris Ward, a San Diego Democrat — would prohibit surveillance pricing. That’s when a company uses technology to gain someone’s digital data, which then helps determine an item’s price.
“This gives the company the ability to change prices in real time,” Ward said, adding later: “It’s about preventing a new form of digital exploitation.”
Ryan Allain, with the California Retailers Association, opposed the measure. His industry is highly competitive and businesses work to lower their prices, not increase them, he said. He fears the bill would prohibit a business from using data to offer discounts.
“We have to get the detail right,” Ward said, adding that exceptions are included in his bill.
