President Trump says he has been considering “carrying” the US citizenship of rival, actress and comedian Rosie O’Donel for a long time, despite a decades -old Supreme Court’s decision, which clearly restricted such action by the government.
“Due to the fact that Rosie O’Donel is not in the best interest of our great country, I am giving serious ideas to remove his citizenship,” Mr. Trump has written Social media post On Saturday. He said that O’Donnell, who goes to Ireland in January, should live in Ireland “if they want it.”
The two have publicly criticized each other for years, often a bitter back and forth that occurs before the participation of Mr. Trump in politics. In recent times, on social media, O’Donel condemned the recent steps by Mr. Trump and his administration, including a large-scale signing of a GOP-supported tax break and Spending deduction scheme,
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Responding to Mr. Trump on Saturday, O’Donnell wrote on social media that he had harassed the President and “to add me to the list of those who oppose him at every turn.”
O’Donnell wrote Mr. Trump “always hated the fact that I see who he is – a criminal con man sexually abuses who harms our nation to serve ourselves – that is why I moved to Ireland.”
Mr. Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris and went to O’Donal Ireland after winning his second term. He has said that he is in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship on the basis of family dynasty.
This is the latest threat by Mr. Trump to cancel the citizenship of those with whom he publicly disagreed, recently his former advisor and one -time colleague, Elon Musk,
But the position of O’Donel is quite different from musk, which was born in South Africa. O’Donnell was born in the US and is a constitutional right to American citizenship. US State Department notes On your website American citizens can abandon American nationality by taking birth or naturalization – but only when the Act is voluntary performance and with the intention of abandoning American citizenship.
Since assuming the post again in January, Mr. Trump has demanded to limit the path for citizenship and Access to green cardOn Thursday, A federal judge A nationwide block issued against Mr. Trump’s executive order End of congenital citizenship,
Amanda Frost, a law professor at Virginia School of Law, ruled in a 1967 case that the Supreme Court ruled that Fourteenth amendment The Constitution prevents the government from snatching citizenship.
Frost said in an email on Saturday, “The President has no right to snatch the citizenship of a native-born American citizen.” “In short, we are established on the principle that people choose the government; the government cannot choose people.”