What's extraordinary of the Thomas and Alito dissents is how guilty they are of doing what they claim to oppose: legislating from the bench. (View Post)

The slightly weird bit is that these birth tourists are getting US citizenship for their kids because they are worried about the Chinese government, not because they are instruments of it. (View Post)

Jurisprudence has generally been of the view that the clause is designed to exclude the children of diplomats. (View Post)

As an aside, the legal complexities around simply determining the 14th Amendment did not grant birthright citizenship are enormous, because it would throw into doubt the citizenship of anyone who had… (View Post)

Actually, that's not necessarily true. Brett Kavanagh's concurrence basically said "the Constitution does not guarantee absolutel birthright citizenship, but the Immigration and Nation… (View Post)