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To establish that citizens of the US shall owe sole and exclusive allegiance [pdf]

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Not likely to actually go anywhere. It hasn't even gone to committee.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s3283

Still, good to be aware of what is out there. Call your representatives on anything you see that sounds like a bad idea.

So far in the 119th congress there have been 3688 bills filed in the Senate. A fraction of a percent of them will ever get talked about, voted on, or passed an sent to the House. It’s performative theatre for the constituents back home.

And especially, if you’ve noticed, lately the Senate has taken to gaveling into session for the sole purpose of declaring a recess until the next day - being in session for less than 30 seconds a day! Today, they were in session for 11 seconds…

This is typical for the senate. It’s called the “pro-forma session”. This is primarily done so that the senate is never truly in recess and thus blocks the president’s power to make recess appointments.

https://legalclarity.org/what-is-a-pro-forma-session-and-how...

The language reminds me of how Germany handled dual citizenships until very recently, taking away the German citizenship unless a years long opaque retention certificate application process wasn't followed.

Until recently? Honest question, what is the rule now? Source?

You don’t need a Beibehaltungsgenehmigung anymore before taking on another citizenship.

I honestly didn't know that! And even better, being old (>54 years) don't even need to take a (Canadian) citizenship test. This may finally get me motivated.

Full title: To establish that citizens of the United States shall owe sole and exclusive allegiance to the United States, and for other purposes.

What problem is this intended to solve?

This is going to sound frivolous on first reading, but I don't mean it that way. Proles having dual citizenship might be able to escape Trump's vengeance by having their other country intervene.

Of course sufficiently wealthy people will always be able to buy their way out of trouble.

An allegience bill introduced by Bernie Moreno, huh. In my opinion, any federal government official who denies the 2020 election has violated their allegiance to the United States. As early as 2021 [1]:

> After the 2020 presidential election, Moreno criticized those denying the results of the election, but in 2021 expressed his belief that the election had been "stolen".

And as late as 2024 [2]:

> In paid advertising before the primary, Moreno had embraced Trump’s lies about the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

> “President Trump says the election was stolen and he’s right,” Moreno said in one digital ad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Moreno#Political_positi...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/republicans-ohio-moreno-trump-she...

Moreno is Santos with zero panache.

Feels a bit ... needy?

It'll be interesting to see how far this gets. A lot of wealthy people in the US have multiple citizenship. Elon Musk, for instance, holds citizenship status in three countries. Thiel in the US and New Zealand.

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