El of LA

@elofla

Bio-Anthropologist/Linguist/IT/Writing professional. Post on social issues/indicators, environment, justice, evolution (which we're failing at). Slava Ukraini. "We all do better when we all do better!" (Here since 9-2023. I keep feed short.) No lists pls.

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El of LA@elofla· 4d

Joyce Vance joycevance.substack.com/p/what-trump...

The graphic is taken from the top of the post at the link noted above and states:
"Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
What Trump's New Birthright Citizenship Orders Actually Do
Joyce Vance
Aug 07, 2026

The Supreme Court has spoken; birthright citizenship is part of the Constitution. Babies born here, with rare exceptions like one for children born to foreign diplomats, are American citizens regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

There was an asterisk, of course. We discussed it at the time the decision in Barbara, the birthright citizenship case, came down. The asterisk was the concurrence by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who joined the majority but had different reasons for reaching that result. (For more detail, that piece is here.)

Justice Kavanaugh believes Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship violated a federal law—but importantly, not the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. That matters because although Trump can’t amend the Constitution with an executive order, Congress can change laws it has passed. Kavanaugh wasn’t particularly subtle; his opinion was an invitation for Congress to do just that, implying he would then flip sides. Congress, he wrote, could “enact new legislation” that ends automatic citizenship for babies born to people who are “unlawfully or temporarily in the country.”

El of LA@elofla· 6d

Joyce White Vance joycevance.substack.com/p/erasing-ja...

Graphic is of the substack post by Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, linked above in my post. The beginnng, shown in the graphic, reads:
"Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance,
Erasing January 6
Joyce Vance, Aug 05, 2026

Before there was the 1776 slush fund and Donald Trump's efforts to reward January 6 rioters, there were pardons. Pardons that erased criminal convictions for people who stormed the Capitol, who defaced it, who fought with and injured law enforcement. On January 20, 2025, shortly after he was inaugurated for the second time, Donald Trump issued a “presidential action” titled “Granting Pardons and Commutation of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to the Events at or Near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

El of LA@elofla· Jan 21

"We don't always get the future that we want, but surviving to get a future and a chance to do good for others is more than many are given. - Grandma Korbian." Quote by Lindsay Buroker, "Scions of Change" ("The Curse and the Crown" series, book 4, chapter 34.) End the US regime. End fascism.