president Donald Trump says that he is considering the US citizenship of A to “take away” long -time rivalActress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a decades of judgment by the Supreme Court, which expressly prohibits such a lawsuit from the government.
“Due to the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interest of our large country, I will seriously think about taking away her citizenship,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Saturday. He added that O’Donnell, who moved to Ireland in January, was to stay in Ireland “if you want you”.
The two have been publicly criticized for years, an often bitter back and forth that goes before Trump’s participation in politics. In the past few days, O’Donnell has been condemned by Trump and the latest steps in his administration on social media, including the signing of a massive tax breaks and expenses.
It is only the latest threat of Trump to revoke the citizenship of people with whom he did not publicly agree, most recently his former consultant and a unique ally. Elon Muschus.
But O’Donnell’s situation differs significantly from Musk, who was born in South Africa. O’Donnell was born in the United States and has a constitutional law on US citizenship. The US State Department is notes On his website However, the fact that US citizens of birth or naturalization can give up US nationality through certain steps -but only if the law is carried out voluntarily and the intention to give up the US citizenship.
Amanda Frost, a legal professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, found that the Supreme Court decided in a case of 1967 that the fourteen changes to the constitution prevented the government from removing citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a born US citizen,” said Frost in an email on Saturday. “In short, we are nation based on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot vote for the people.”
O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to win his second term. She said that she was in the process of maintaining Irish citizenship on the basis of the family line.
O’Donnell replied to Trump on Saturday and wrote on social media that she had annoyed the president and “added to the list of people who oppose him at every turn”.
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