“Ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants gains steam”
The electorate: What took you so long?
Republican politicians: This is not the hill to die on.
They would only die, but gain nothing. It has zero chance in courts. Even some of Clarence Thomas’s clerks believe that it is unconstitutional. And Clarence Thomas’s clerks are as conservative as it gets. Unlike Scalia, he doesn’t want clerks who oppose his views.
The problem is that there is no hill that the GOP is willing to die on.