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Wong Kim Ark was about people lawfully in the country. They immigrated lawfully and had been granted permanent residency. This current case is not about legal immigration. Wong Kim Ark’s family did not commit a crime to enter the United States. In the current case it is about a person entering the United States while committing a crime. Precedents don’t really matter They only matter in trials and lower court rulings. For example locally in Jefferson County, if the police arrest a person and then take a sworn confession from him but the police did not advise the person of his constitutional rights under Miranda, it is an unlawfully obtained confession. Precedent tells the trial judge to disallow the statement and any evidence gathered from the unlawful statement. The Supreme Court however doesn’t have to go by precedent and can overturn its own decisions. An example is that Roe v Wade said that states could not stop abortions within certain limits but in Dobbs v Jackson WHO the precedent was overturned. Some people cried foul because Roe v. Wade had been precedent for 49 years. That can’t be!! But let’s take a trip down memory lane. In 1896 the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson said that segregation was lawful as long as accommodations were equal. That gave us the phrase separate but equal. Colored water fountains, lunch counters, etc., were constitutional Then in 1954, almost 60 years later, the Supreme Court in Brown v Board of Education said that segregation in schools was unconstitutional, effectively overturning Plessy v Ferguson. Awesome! The Supreme Court overturned a bad ruling in Plessy. Precedents should not be locked into stone. Oh, guaranteed abortions were overturned? Supreme Court precedents should be locked in stone! So apparently one side of the aisle thinks that precedents should stand!! Well, except the ones that we don’t like…..

It only starts with Trump if he was born about 1820. The first major case of birthright citizenship was in 1884 in which case the Supreme Court denied birthright citizenship for Native Americans who belonged to a tribe because they were under Native American jurisdiction, not the US. Louder for those in the back of the room, the Supreme Court ruled against birthright citizenship if you owed allegiance to another country, even if Native American born on US soil.

Not according to a Supreme Court ruling. Native Americans born on US were not citizens if born on an Indian reservation. It literally took an act of Congress under Article I to make them citizens. Although born on US soil, they were subject to the laws and jurisdiction of the Indian nation to which they belonged.

On the positive side, it took almost an hour into the new year.

Beaumont ending the violent year with a bang.

Deal breaker for what?

They could just as well hire me as the head of thoracic surgery at Harvard Medical School. A police officer would be well suited to be in charge of a prestigious position at a medical school. After all, I have been to about half a dozen classes on first aid. The Dems, right on schedule, are into box checking. And no, we absolutely shouldn’t be surprised.

Hang on to that power!! To heck with the cost!! It’s not like it’s coming out of their pocket.

Yes, I was talking about the warehouse. I thought it was substantially as I moved some furniture pieces from there back when I worked for a living. I don’t know about the showroom.

Howell’s was a fairly decent sized operation.

I think there were quite a number shots fired.

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I think the school board is automatically dissolved when the state takes over. In effect they don’t exist as a government body. They become nothing but private citizens. The superintendent is in the hands of the board of managers.

Probably 15 years ago I heard Bill O’Reilly make a comment about this. His comment was something like, “Sure it should start at home. Yes there are some parents that do not do a good job. Should we simply abandon the children with bad parents?”.

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