Domenico Montanaro
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It would take a two-thirds majority in the House, a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and then it would need three-quarters of state legislatures to repeal that.
This way, though, Trump, as we've seen with other things, is trying to take a shortcut.
Near impossible.
I mean, look what happened with the ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment, which...
you know, had lots of momentum behind it and never was able to get the three quarters of legislatures that it needed in time.
Another confusing thread-the-needle kind of opinion from the Supreme Court potentially then.
Because the Supreme Court's already upheld birthright citizenship, right, in previous case.
Yeah, I mean, the polls are kind of all over the place, frankly, on this.
In general, what they find is that people are largely in support of birthright citizenship if you're born to U.S.
citizens, right?
So that's sort of a no-brainer for a lot of people, 9 in 10 in a Pew Research Center population.
Poll found that they were in favor of that at issue here is obviously what the Trump administration is is arguing against, which is giving citizenship to babies who are born to people who are in the country without permanent legal status or across the border illegally.
And that's where the support really sort of plummets.
Pew had it at about 50 to 49, a split on people being in favor versus against it.
YouGov, another poll, had it much lower than that, only about 31%.
And a lot of the issue here is how questions are asked because Public Religion Research Institute, Civic Health and Institutions Project or CHIP 50, both very good polls.
They had much higher support for this regardless of citizenship status.
They found majorities in favor.
But what both of those polls did was tell people that it was in the U.S.
Constitution.