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McKenna: Courts will likely decide birthright citizenship, but better route would be constitutional amendment
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

McKenna: Courts will likely decide birthright citizenship, but better route would be constitutional amendment

By Stephen C. McKenna | Guest Commentary, themckennaproject.com Colorado recently joined twenty-one other states in suing the federal government over President Trump’s Executive Order ending birthright citizenship. Setting aside for a moment the argument of whether the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, I am wondering why so many claim to be so outraged by the idea. In Colorado’s case, it cannot be because gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Phil Weiser has a deep and abiding respect for the constitution. He and Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who is also eyeing the governor’s mansion, embarrassed Colorado by trying to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot, which the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled 9-0 was unconstitutional. These politicians appear...
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McKenna: Reflecting on America and Independence Day
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Commentary, National, Rocky Mountain Voice

McKenna: Reflecting on America and Independence Day

By Stephen McKenna | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice On July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson presented perhaps the most consequential document written since the Bible to the Second Continental Congress. On Aug. 2, the 56 delegates to that Congress, representing the 13 colonies, signed the Declaration of Independence. In doing so, these patriots also signed their own death warrants, should the British empire rebuff their effort to create a country ensuring every individual’s right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  From Patrick Henry’s closing line to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, "Give me liberty or give me death!” to former schoolteacher and Continental Army officer Nathan Hale’s, “I only regret that I have but one life to give to my count...
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