Constitutional scholars agree: Any child born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen. Any action by President Trump would face legal challenges.https://nyti.ms/2DcCsnD
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Dear NYT, It is not unclear whether Trump can end birthright citizenship. It is clearly prohibited by the 14th Amendment: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." -Your friendly conlaw prof
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Also, the S Ct has ruled that 14th Amdt establishes birthright citizenship: "The amendment, in clear words & in manifest intent, includes the children born within the territory of the US of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled w/in the US," US v. Wong Kim Ark
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"To hold that the 14th Amdt... excludes from citizenship the children born in the United States of citizens or subjects of other countries, would be to deny citizenship to thousands of persons... who have always been considered and treated as citizens of the United States."
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Are there exceptions to birthright citizenship?Yes:"children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships,or of enemies w/in & during a hostile occupation of part of our territory, & children of members of the Indian tribes owing direct allegiance..."
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The Supreme Court in U.S. v. Wong Kim Art (1898) described birthright citizenship as "the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory." Around 30 other countries have it.
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Some history: The citizenship provision in the 14th Amendment was specifically designed to overrule the racist Dred Scott v. Sandford decision where the Supreme Court said that African Americans, slave or free, could never become citizens.
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More history: U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) was decided during an era that so hostile to the Chinese that the law than banned new Chinese immigrants to the U.S. was called simply the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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A little basic conlaw: once the Supreme Court has interpreted a provision of the Constitution, its understanding can be overruled only by a constitutional amendment or another Supreme Court ruling. Not Congress. Not the President.
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What is unclear? Is that a joke? The constitution can't be changed by an executive order. End of story. He wants to be Papa Doc, dictator for life, doesn't mean we have to help him.
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What if he gets a Congress to amend it or his Supreme Court to uphold his EO?
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He can't just get congress to amend it. Has to be ratified by 2/3 of the states. It's not instant pudding, and it was designed to be difficult.
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Even more. 2/3 of both Houses of Congress and 3/4 of the states.
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Oops, thank you, should have checked it first.
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Do better, NYT! The President cannot by himself end birthright citizenship. Read the 14th amendment. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
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Julie Davis did not just wake up and write an article out of the nowhere... this article is here become Trump said he would
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So if trump said he was repealing gravity by executive order...?
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Newton would come out his grave
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