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In reply to the discussion: If Trump can overrule the 14th Amendment via Executive Order [View all]lark
(23,785 posts)20. He doesn't just want to be like Hitler, he's following his footsteps exactly so he is Hitler.
He read Hitler's speeches every night for 10 years per Ivanna, it's the only book she ever saw him read. The rabid hate of minorities and the press and strengthening the power of the rich is exactly the same thing Hitler did.
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He is saying that he can recind birthright citizenship with an executive order.
Blue_true
Oct 2018
#34
I honestly think the Comey was a well meaning idiot that made a horrific decision that he regrets.
Blue_true
Oct 2018
#40
He doesn't just want to be like Hitler, he's following his footsteps exactly so he is Hitler.
lark
Oct 2018
#20
Doubtful, their are few gray areas left with the 2nd. The 14th has been subject to less scrutiny
Amishman
Oct 2018
#10
The Second was concerned more with protecting a young nation from armed invaders.
Blue_true
Oct 2018
#36
If the republican Court does that, it just as well should burn every copy of the Constitution.
Blue_true
Oct 2018
#37
If Trump can, then there won't be a Constitution to overrule or a Democratic POTUS to do it.
sarge43
Oct 2018
#18
There's good and bad about this. The good is that he can't do it, but the bad....
George II
Oct 2018
#19
He can't. Constitutional amendments cannnot be made by Congress or by executive order.
Nitram
Oct 2018
#26