Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan, who Trump picked as his next border policy adviser, received immediate pushback during a CNN appearance when he suggested that the 14th Amendment – specifically the Citizenship clause – isn’t actually enshrined in the Constitution.
“I think that's up to the courts, I think it needs to be held by the Supreme Court,” Homan told anchor Kaitlan Collins when she said Trump’s vow to end birthright citizenship “is no easy feat, given that it is enshrined in the Constitution.”Yeah. They already did that. In 1898.
Try to keep up. (The Vladeck article is well worth reading. But I cited it for the picture of the decision. It’s the one that affirmed the basis of citizenship in the United States going back, as I said before, to the colonies. This country has never so much as flirted with jus sanguinus, which is the only other basis for citizenship from birth in European history. As Vladeck points out, the issue of birthright citizenship is settled law.)Trump is going to lose the legal fight that he's picking on birthright citizenship.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 12, 2024
Today's bonus "One First" explains why—and how focusing too much on citizenship will distract us from the more legally defensible immigration measures that are coming:https://t.co/35q1Amk8ix
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