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Today, the Trump fascist regime is arguing in front of the Supreme Court that they should be allowed to destroy the Constitutional right to Birthright Citizenship. That the Supreme Court is even entertaining this blatantly unconstitutional proposition is outrageous and illegitimate.

On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order (Executive Order 14156) claiming to strip away the fundamental right to Birthright Citizenship – a shameless attack on the U.S. Constitution the rule of law, the separation of powers, and the lives of countless people. Birthright Citizenship means that every person born in the United States automatically becomes a citizen of the United States. It is written into the 14^th Amendment of the Constitution and was won through the Civil War to grant citizenship to formerly enslaved people.

Everything about Trump’s executive order is illegitimate.

First off, Birthright Citizenship is not a policy. It is not a law. It is part of the Constitution. Ending Birthright Citizenship in a legal manner – as terrible and illegitimate as that would be – would require a constitutional process that Trump REFUSES to abide by. By trying to cancel Birthright Citizenship through executive fiat, the Trump/MAGA fascist regime is trampling on the rule of law itself. It is accelerating a new and blatantly dictatorial form of rule – a FASCIST rule in the most powerful country in the world.

This is illegitimate! Hands off birthright citizenship! The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go!

Second, think about the inherent violence of taking the concept of citizenship back to the slave-era Dred Scott decision which said that Black people, enslaved or free, were not citizens of the United States and therefore had no rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

Listen to the words from an Amicus Brief issued by the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and the Equal Justice Society: “The Executive Order continues a trend of hostility towards immigrants of color, foretells a swelling wave of civil rights violations, and would re-establish a legally inferior underclass in America.” It goes on to say that the terrifying mass deportations currently being conducted out by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the command of the Trump fascist regime “are reminiscent of a time prior to and during Reconstruction when newly freed Black people had to carry their manumission papers on hand for fear of being abducted and forced back into slavery.”

Think about what this would mean for the countless children of immigrant parents. Newborn children would be rendered stateless. Birth certificates issued by state agencies that defy Trump’s order would be declared null and void. Millions who know no other country would be disenfranchised and thrown into the shadows. Millions who were born here would grow up without the right to passports, to vote, to healthcare, and other basic citizenship rights.

NO! No decent person should want to go back to a time when citizenship was determined by race or by the inferior legal status of their ancestors!

This is illegitimate! Hands off birthright citizenship! The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go!

Third, this is a massive assault on the separation of powers and the power of the federal judiciary.

Because Trump’s attempt to revoke Birthright Citizenship via executive order is so blatantly unconstitutional, three federal courts immediately blocked it. However, the Trump regime absurdly claims that that these injunctions – which federal courts have full authority to issue – should only apply to the cases that sparked the injunctions and NOT apply to the rest of the country. This is unprecedented and would radically undercut the ability of the federal judiciary – a supposedly co-equal branch of government – to act as a check on unconstitutional abuses committed by the Executive Branch going forward.

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump, not only will Birthright Citizenship be gone for most of the country for an indefinite period of time, this will open the door to further attacks on the rights and lives of masses of people and it will be a major blow to the authority of the federal courts.

This is illegitimate! Hands off birthright citizenship! The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go!

RefuseFascism.org’s A Call to Conscience… A Call to Act says: “Fascism” is not a curse word. Fully imposed, it is a radically oppressive and repressive form of rule over the people of this country, with devastating impact on the people of the world. The rule of law is shredded. Civil and democratic rights are eliminated. Dissent is piece by piece criminalized. The truth is bludgeoned. Group after group demonized and targeted along a trajectory that leads to catastrophe.” Fascism has direction and momentum. There can come a point when it becomes too late for the people to stop it. Now is the time to rise up and drive it from power.

Everyone today who does not want to live in a fascist America: raise your voices today to say HANDS OFF BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. And in two days, join with others across this country to take the offense against the whole damn thing — make a big leap in projecting this demand – Trump Must Go Now! – to the tens of millions who are heartsick and furious about all Trump is doing. Let them see there is a movement for them to join with a real strategy to win. Keep raising this demand all summer long, including at the nationwide protests called for June 14, “No Kings Day”!

Go to refusefascism.org and sign A Call to Conscience, A Call to Act. This call is a vital tool for millions in this country to understand what we are facing and how we have the power to stop it: “Millions in the streets not allowing business as usual when that business is cementing fascist rule with the vilest degrading morality shoved down our throats. MANY VOICES AND BODIES DEMANDING: THE TRUMP FASCIST REGIME MUST GO NOW! With this we can and must create a political crisis in which the Trump regime cannot govern and implement their fascist program or even maintain its hold on power.”

If we act with courage and heart, if we unite all who can be united from diverse political perspectives, we have the numbers and the power to reclaim the future.

In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!

Trump Must Go Now!​