"Green Day" singer after the decision of the Supreme Court: Come to America, I renounce my citizenship
The singer of the American band "Green Day", Billy Joe Armstrong has said he will relinquish his US citizenship and move to England because he is "very upset" by last week's US Supreme Court ruling that overturned a 50-year-old Row v. Wade case that gave them the right to an abortion. of women in all states, writes CNN.
"America, I am giving up my citizenship. I'm coming here. "There is too much nonsense in the world to go back to that pathetic justification for the state," Armstrong told an audience during a Green Day performance in London on Friday.
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billie joe's statement on roe vs wade at london hella mega tour last night pic.twitter.com/6cJx4oa6I1- friendly neighborhood clikkie (@ armstr0ngtyler) June 25, 2022
Armstrong has been a Green Day frontman since 1987 and is one of many liberal celebrities who have expressed outrage over the Supreme Court's decision to oust Row v. Wade, which allowed constitutional recognition of the right to abortion and gave individual states full power. to allow, restrict or prohibit the practice.
Billy Joe Armstrong is not the only one who had a very strong reaction to the Supreme Court decision. Olivia Rodrigo during her performance at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK with the British singer Lily Allen The hit "F *** you" was dedicated to the judges of the US Supreme Court who decided to abolish the federal right to abortion.