Donald Trump has stated he’s contemplating “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comic Rosie O’Donnell, regardless of a Supreme Court docket ruling that expressly prohibits a authorities from doing so.
In a put up on Reality Social on Saturday, the US president stated: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He additionally labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Eire, as a “threat to humanity” and stated she ought to “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting {a photograph} of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote within the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
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Rosie O’Donnell moved to Eire after Donald Trump secured a second time period. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Eire along with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second time period.
She has stated she’s within the technique of acquiring Irish citizenship primarily based on household lineage and that she would solely return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised one another publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s transfer into politics.
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That is simply the newest risk by the president to revoke the citizenship of somebody he has disagreed with, most lately his former ally Elon Musk.
However the two conditions are totally different as whereas Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born within the US and has a constitutional proper to American citizenship.
Amanda Frost, a regulation professor on the College of Virginia Faculty of Legislation, stated the Supreme Court docket dominated in a 1967 case that the fourteen modification of the structure prevents the federal government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
