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Exotica

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2. It really affects me, as I am a dual US/UK citizen, BUT also live in the EU outside of the UK.
Mon May 21, 2018, 12:20 PM
May 2018

I am now eligible for citizenship in a 3rd country (in the EU), but would have to give up either my UK or USA passport/citizenship to do so. My wife is Dual UK/Swedish so I may just keep my American status and play off her EU status (as same-sex marriage has been recognised in some EU countries since 2001, and now in all that we would live in, or at least civil unions).

TBH, if a nightmare scenario (Trump or another Rethug elected POTUS again in 2020 and the Senate/House go wonky as well) I cannot see living again in the US for long time, if ever, as the SCOTUS will almost certainly end up 7-2 or 8-1 (if Sotomayor has to retire due to her bad diabetes) hard RW.

That will bode ill for so much of our constitutional protections as a hard RW activist SCOTUS will toss stare decisis out the window on a shit tonne of crucial civil rights issues. I haven't lived in the US since I was a very small child, born in Los Angeles area (I am 23 now), other than a year and half in NYC.

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