It would be wonderful if our Federal Government would follow Constitutional Law! Life would be simple and lawful!

 

Should Congress seat elected officials from states where illegals can vote?

By Texas Hughes

A thought occurred to me: Should Congress seat elected officials from states where illegals can vote? Here’s the bottom line information, from a federal government website:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 4:

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; . . .

Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution provides Congress with the ‘power . . . To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization . . .throughout the United States.’ The Supreme Court has described naturalization as ‘the act of adopting a foreigner, and clothing him with the privileges of a native citizen.’ Pursuant to this authority, Congress may legislate terms and conditions by which a foreign-born national (alien) may become a U.S. citizen. Moreover, Congress’s power over naturalization is exclusive; states may not impose their own terms and conditions by which aliens may become U.S. citizens. Based on this broad power, Congress has enacted a series of laws governing the naturalization of aliens in the United States since the end of the eighteenth century. These naturalization laws have generally applied to three main categories of aliens: (1) those who have resided in the United States for certain periods of time and applied for naturalization; (2) those born abroad to U.S. citizen parents; and (3) those who derived citizenship after their parents naturalized in the United States.

Now, note these key legal standards:

1. The Constitution distinguishes “citizens” from non-citizens (foreign-born nationals), regardless of their legal or illegal residence status.
2. Only citizens have the right to vote for national offices. Non-citizen (“aliens”) do not have the voting rights of citizens.
3. Non-citizens (those from foreign countries) may become “naturalized” citizens, if they qualify, and thus gain full citizenship rights. 
4. States lack the power to convert non-citizens into citizens, only the U.S. Congress can pass such laws (see excerpted text above). 

States conduct elections within each state, within the bounds defined in the Constitution. States may have voting qualifications different from what the Constitution establishes for national offices for their state offices, and for counties and cities established under state laws.

However, a state may not diverge from the Constitution, which limits the privilege to vote for national office to citizens.

Clearly, states must thus determine the citizenship status of all those wishing to vote, to ensure that no non-citizen votes for national offices. If states do not prevent aliens without citizenship from voting for national office, national office election results from those states are invalid, and should be rejected. 

States which deliberately allow non-citizens to vote for national offices should be treated as insurrectionist.

I think this means that the U.S. Congress must not seat members from states where illegal aliens were allowed to vote. And, presidential electors from states that allowed illegal aliens to vote for national offices should not be counted in electoral voting for president and vice president.

I’m sure that within the millions of pages of laws passed by Congress that there are laws that permit the federal government to enforce legal voting only.

Here’s hoping Trump makes his Attorney General enforce these laws.

Here’s hoping Congress has the courage to reject election results from states that allowed illegal aliens to vote for national office. I doubt that RINOs and leftist-run states have the backbone though, as they lack love for our founders’ glorious Constitution.

MAGA must crush insurrectionists if we are ever to make America great again.