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The Ultimate Hypocrisy: Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr., and Rubio Lose Citizenship
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The episode's most explosive moment arrives quietly, as Scaramucci reads Alito's dissent logic back to its logical conclusion [1] — Anthony Scaramucci "Under Alito's sole-allegiance-at-birth test, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. would not have been U.S. citizens — their mother Ivana was Czechoslo…" 36:35 . The sole-allegiance-at-birth test Alito proposed — that citizenship at birth requires the parent to owe sole allegiance to the United States — would disqualify Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. entirely: their mother Ivana was a Czechoslovakian citizen when they were born. Marco Rubio and Bernie Moreno, both prominent Trump allies, would face the same fate. Scaramucci notes that Trump's team tried to draft the executive order with surgical exceptions for cases like his children's, but Alito's dissent went further than the executive order intended. Swisher and Scaramucci find this darkly clarifying: the policy isn't about immigration integrity, it's about keeping certain people out of the electorate. 'It solves that these people will probably be Democrats,' Swisher says flatly. Everything, in the end, is about stopping people from voting.
Under Alito's sole-allegiance-at-birth test, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. would not have been U.S. citizens — their mother Ivana was Czechoslovakian. Marco Rubio and Bernie Moreno would've been in the same boat. Trump tried to surgically write the executive order around his own family.
Under Alito's sole-allegiance-at-birth test, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. would not have qualified as citizens because their mother Ivana was a Czechoslovakian citizen at the time of their births.
Kara Swisher drew a direct line between Stephen Miller and the bureaucrat who engineered Japanese-American internment — both powered by singular, evidence-free hatred of immigrants. She recommends Rachel Maddow's Burn Order podcast as the template for understanding how this happens.
