President Donald Trump called for Congress to help him overcome his Supreme Court loss by passing a law to limit birthright citizenship, but CNN's Elie Honig called that plan "delusional."
Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined five other justices in voting against Trump's executive order, but he argued that the order had violated federal law but not the Constitution and all but invited Congress to pass legislation to strip automatic citizenship for the children of some immigrants.
"This is notgoing to work," Honig said. "You have to be delusional to thinkthat you can pass a law that will then supersede what's in the Constitution. So we now know, as aresult of yesterday's ruling, that birthrightcitizenship in the 14th Amendment is what we have thought ithas been for the last 158 years, which essentiallysays if you're born here, with very narrowexceptions, you are a citizen. If Congress were to pass a lawsaying, no, it's actually much narrower than that, that would not overcome the Constitution itself. You could no more do that than you could go pass a law saying no more Electoral College. No, the Constitution says Electoral College."
"To change the Constitution, youhave to amend the Constitution," he added. "If you want tochange it, there is a mechanism. It's virtuallyimpossible in today's reality, but no, a law willnot overcome what's in the Constitution itself."
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