The birthright citizenship ban is unconstitutional, and it’s not even close

Source: Washington Post
by Ruth Marcus

“Hours after Trump swore an oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,’ the president tried to rewrite the Constitution by executive fiat. His order purporting to eliminate birthright citizenship violated the clear language of the 14th Amendment and a statute writing that protection into law. It also ignored a 127-year-old Supreme Court precedent enforcing the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship and subsequent rulings reaffirming that understanding. … This is a terrible idea, and a deeply un-American one, though it’s important to understand that birthright citizenship isn’t an American innovation — what the Supreme Court called ‘the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory’ has sturdy roots in English common law.” (01/28/25)

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