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cosmicgadget a day ago

The timing coincides with her office getting embarrassed in front of the Supreme Court, with Trump in artendance.

P2025 had a plan but it was always going to struggle against the president's personality issues.

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CodeWriter23 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Also with Swallwell becoming aware the FBI had him under investigation. And he and Bondi are buds.

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NewJazz 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Who?

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JKCalhoun 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Random news article I pulled up: "FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly seeking to release files related to the Democratic lawmaker's previous association with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative."

	▲	NewJazz 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Why would Bondi have ties to this drama?

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dirtbagskier a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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quickthrowman a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Trying to argue the 14th amendment doesn’t read as plainly as it does was a no-win situation. The government would have to argue it does not have jurisdiction (subject to the jurisdiction thereof) over illegal immigrants which would seemingly (IANAL) mean they’re immune to prosecution for any crime.

You could probably find a hair splitting argument that the child must be born in an actual ‘State’, but aside from that, jus soli citizenship is pretty clearly part of the constitution.

That being said, Pam Bondi was very bad at her job.

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cosmicgadget a day ago | parent | next [-]

Her job (under the current president):

1. Be unquestioningly loyal to the president

2. Prosecute his enemies, such as Comey, Bolton, and Perkins Coie

3. Reward his allies, such as Eric Adams, everyone who violates the Hatch Act in a way that pleases him, and the people he tells to sue the USG so he can direct the DoJ to settle

4. Put crazy stuff like birthright citizenship and IEEPA in front of the Supreme Court

5. Slow roll the Epstein files, don't prosecute anyone

6. Expedite deportations by any means necessary

How much more can you ask of her?

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AnimalMuppet a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> That being said, Pam Bondi was very bad at her job.

Perhaps so. (In fact, I suspect so.) But having a boss that keeps putting you in impossible situations is not conducive to good performance reviews. She got fired for failing to deliver on Trump's fantasies of how the legal system ought to treat him. A different AG isn't going to do too much better, because too many of Trump's positions are legally insane.

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CodeWriter23 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The genesis of the Fourteenth Amenedment was to deny citizenship to any circumventing said jurisdiction, as the Confederate states had done. As illegal aliens have all done. Seems pretty cut and dry to me, especially considering SCOTUS previously ruled American Indians were not under the jurisdiction of The United States after the Fourteenth was ratified, requiring Congress to enact a law granting them citizenship.

DACA is another example, The Obama Administration could not get legislation passed to grant citizenship to those individuals, so drafted an Executive Order to not enforce the law (as he had previously sworn an Oath to do, I might add). And now many of those individuals are facing deportation.

	▲	andrewjf 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sources on the first paragraph? I can’t tell what you’re even trying at say. DACA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_...) was an exec order specifically because those individuals were brought over (as children, with no agency over their fate) after they were born, not before, so of course they weren’t citizens via the 14th. You’re correct that It wasn’t a law passed by Congress, but it’s irrelevant. I’m not sure what you’re saying, talking anything about DACA in this context is irrelevant.