Tom Walton is an attorney in Dallas County.
Your American citizenship would turn on the subjective judgment of some Citizenship Czar as to whether you have been sufficiently supportive of a MAGA administration, if Vice President JD Vance and the Trump administration have their way.
On July 5, Vance spoke at a meeting of the Claremont Institute, a MAGA think tank. He delivered a shocking and exceedingly poorly reasoned argument for redefining what it means be an American citizen. The speech was backward, bewildering, and without basis in law or logic.
In his speech, Vance urged that we must “redefine American citizenship.” He suggested that “identifying America just with agreeing with its principles” is “not enough by itself.” Think of the oath that thousands of new American citizens take all the time:
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