Todd Talk | Birthright Citizenship Faces Supreme Court Scrutiny
A 60-second conservative commentary with humor and heart.
My friends, today the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship.
As you know, birthright citizenship is often said to mean that anyone born on American soil is a citizen.
But the 14th Amendment to the Constitution says this: “all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens”
So what does “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” actually mean?
Because if simply crossing the border and having a child here guarantees citizenship, we’ve created a system that can be exploited.
And it’s hard to believe that was the original intent.
So now it comes down to this: what will the Court do?
Will enough justices have the clarity and resolve to rule the law as written - or will we get more judicial madness?
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