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[+] -51 points 3 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] [M] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This comment was reported for "Racism"

    I have removed this comment, but not for that, as "Trustafarian" isn't a race - it's slang for "trust fund kids that live a hedonistic lifestyle".

    I removed it for misinformation.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry, but just so I understand - what exactly was the "misinformation"? I'm not clear on what was either objectionable or incorrectly claimed to be untrue.

    For anyone salty about the fact that a government owns your passports, I don't have time to dig out a hundred statutes, but can you can refer to

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/22/51.7 and

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/passports-introducing-her-majestys-passport-office

    For the US and UK.

    Also, "Trustafarian" isn't a race, it's slang for rich kids that pretend to be poor and live a hedonistic lifestyle.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    Sure, an administration that follows the law might agree with this interpretation.

    My point is that the government has authority to act and individuals have to sue to fight it. I'm not saying that revoking a visa over unpaid child support is a correct interpretation, or even "right" in a subjective moral sense. I'm saying it's within the NSPM-7 definition of what they can do to act first and let objectively shitbag people sue them to undo it.

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  • [–] 55 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    every single country plays it like that

    If I have a debt to the government, they send me collection letters and garnish my wages. They don't take away my passport for such stuff. Stop with the normalization.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The US government may only revoke passports for reasons of national security. Someone being behind on bills does not meet that criteria. See Haig v. Agee, 453 U.S. 280

    https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/453/280/

    https://commons.law.famu.edu/faculty-research/155/

    "In Haig v. Agee, the United States Supreme Court held that the Secretary of State has the authority to revoke a passport when the bearer's activities abroad "**are causing or are likely to cause serious damage to the national security or the foreign policy of the United States." **

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The Supreme Court can make up whatever bullshit they want. They just gutted the Voting Rights Act, why not this too?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I did not get through the entire opinion, but don't think it says what you think it says.

    The question presented is whether the President, acting through the Secretary of State, has authority to revoke a passport on the ground that the holder's activities in foreign countries are causing or are likely to cause serious damage to the national security or foreign policy of the United States.

    The court was not asked to consider weather passports could be revoked on other grounds.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Freedom of travel is a right, it's why any states license is valid in any others. Unfortunately republicans have upped id requirements to include passports in common occasions, so this is actually an attack on freedom of travel. But since Americans get off on punishment most of us won't see a problem. Also because we're stupid, just see any comment defending this move.

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