The 14th Amendment’s author wouldn’t accept the Supreme Court’s interpretation

The ruling on the Supreme Court’s biggest case of the term is in. The court found in Trump v. Barbara that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants born in the United States. Our legal system will continue handling anchor babies the same way it has for years.As problematic as this ruling is, it must be said that much of the response opposing it has also been rather bad. Populist drivel has successfully made the conversation radioactive. The people who sacrifice principles in the name of expediency are now saying that the situation warrants everything from forced sterilization of foreigners to repealing the 19th Amendment (all the female justices were in the majority).

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