birthright citizenship Archives

BOWMAN: Rescuing Our Law

December 28, 2025 Jim Bowman

Finally, a Fourteenth Amendment challenge makes it to our Supreme Court! This is in line with my long-held belief against these birthright citizenship rulings, which reward every lawbreaker whoseeks for her child to be born in “the land of plenty.” What should have been a Congress-enacted, time-restricted law, ensuring all the rights and freedoms of … Read more

Klar: The Birthright Backlash Begins

July 17, 2025 John Klar

New Hampshire ruling kicks the issue back to the Supremes Frustration over activist judges issuing sweeping national injunctions to block the president’s initiatives culminated in the US Supreme Court decision of Trump v CASA, Inc. The nation’s highest court ruled that US district courts lack the constitutional authority to veto executive orders with broad, nationwide injunctions. … Read more

What Happened To ABC’s ‘Layers’ of “Fact-Checkers”?

January 15, 2025 Skip

Who let this go through on something as basic as the US Constitution? “Can birthright citizenship be repealed? Breaking down Trump’s proposal.”It looks like another anti-Trump dig, poke, and scree. How dare you make these little children “stateless,” never mentioning their mothers for putting them in such legal jeopardy. And so much for “objective” reporting. … Read more

Will Donald Trump End Birthright Citizenship?

December 27, 2024 John Klar

Of the many apple carts Donald Trump has tipped in the gathering whirlwind of planned initiatives for his second term, few have garnered the critical cacophony spurred by his promise to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented entrants. Contrary to widespread legacy media chatter, he might might actually be … Read more

Why The Democrat Party Is So Obsessed With Illegal Immigration

July 7, 2019 Ed Mosca

This: According to the linked article: A powerful combination of demographic forces are propelling Texas from one of the reddest states in the union into a swing state. … Texas demographics today are strikingly similar to those of California in 1990, before Democrats began their seven to nothing streak of Golden State victories in presidential races. Like … Read more

The 14th Suggestion

October 31, 2018 Ian Underwood

I’m amused to see people dragging out the 14th Amendment in response to President Trump’s suggestion that he’ll unilaterally end ‘birthright citizenship’ through executive action.

For example, a recent piece in Reason ends this way: ‘The original meaning of the 14th Amendment has been clear since 1866. If Trump proceeds with his unconstitutional executive order attacking birthright citizenship, he deserves to be laughed out of court.’

What the author fails to realize is that the words of the 14th Amendment aren’t any more meaningful, to the Supreme Court, than the words of the 1st Amendment, or the 2nd Amendment, or the 4th Amendment, or any of the other words in the Constitution.

Do we have laws, passed by Congress, abridging freedom of speech? Yes. Do we have laws infringing the right to keep and bear arms? Yes. Do we have laws allowing government agents to search people without probable cause? Yes. Do the words of the Constitution allow any of those? No. Has the Court unilaterally amended the Constitution to allow all of them? Yup.