Originally a comment by Papito on Another first.
Trump can glower all he wants to, it’s not going to work. His argument is too wacky and ahistorical to win. All the same issues and questions have been hashed out extensively, on the record, in the past. You’d have to go all the way back to Wong Kim Ark, and say the Court decided that case wrongly, or even before, to to Lynch v Clarke, before the 14th Amendment was even passed. It’s a position that is so far outside American legal tradition that I expect a 9-0 ruling.
For lagniappe, the lawyer arguing the case on behalf of the ACLU is a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship – her Taiwanese parents were on student visas when she was born.
And because Trump is dumb and wrong about just about everything, no the US is not the only country with a tradition of jus soli. Almost every other country in the Americas does, for starters.
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