Project 2025’s sweeping blueprint directly attacks rights enshrined by generations of Supreme Court and appellate rulings. Here’s how these proposals collide with our constitutional bedrock—and why you should care.
Citizenship can’t be revoked
The Supreme Court held that naturalized U.S. citizens cannot be stripped of their citizenship against their will, safeguarding nationality rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Workplace immigration raids unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court ruled that factory raids and detentions conducted without individualized suspicion violate the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable seizures.
Due process is required for deportation.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed that removal proceedings must include notice and an opportunity to be heard, upholding procedural due process rights under the Fifth Amendment.
Loyalty oaths & mass firings of career civil servants
Roving immigration raids without individualized suspicion
Expedited deportations with curtailed hearings
Afroyim v. Rusk (1967): Citizenship cannot be stripped at will
INS v. Delgado (1984): Raids without reasonable suspicion are unlawful
Gonzalez v. INS (1996): Deportations require notice & hearing
Project 2025 demands loyalty pledges and mass firings. But Afroyim v. Rusk guarantees that naturalized citizens—and by extension career employees—can’t be stripped of their status or job based on political tests.
Delegated immigration sweeps without individualized cause mirror Delgado’s condemned workplace raids, violating Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable seizure.
By cutting due‑process hearings, Project 2025 would run roughshod over the notice‑and‑hearing requirements cemented by Gonzalez v. INS.
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