Posted on 10/31/2018 2:51:37 PM PDT by Innovative
Been listening to some of the MSM trying to keep the false narrative that the liberal progressives have used for years to undermine any attempts to strike out the 14 Amendment. We need to keep articles like this moving, fast and furious so the President can get it done.
“The “subject to the jurisdiction...” clause is open to interpretation but it’s quite possible that a conservative justice would interpret it to mean that the parent(s) must not still be under the jurisdiction of a foreign country.”
Judge Napolitano seems to be promoting the fiction that it only means that one is subject to American law while in America. I think he knows better, if not how did he ever become a judge? If it only meant that you have to obey the law of this country it would be superfluous and the constitution was not written by word salad chefs.
For nearly 100 years no one thought that the fourteenth amendment was intended to give automatic citizenship to anyone who was born on American soil regardless of parentage. Now we are expected to accept that those who wrote the amendment did not know what they were writing.
I agree that Trump can challenge this as not a constitutional right.
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