citizenship clause
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Supreme ruled 5-4 on Tuesday, June 30 that President Donald Trump’s attempt to redefine the long-settled understanding of the Citizenship Clause to exclude children born to parents who are temporary or unauthorized immigrants violates the Citizenship Clause of...
The president finds the long-settled meaning of the citizenship clause to be an intolerable obstacle to his agenda. The reason? Each year it would make U.S. citizens of tens of thousands of people who do not fit his racial and cultural ideal of what it means to be an “American.” So what does he do...