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What the Fourteenth Amendment Says About Citizenship - The Atlantic

'Three weeks after he was elected president, Donald Trump tweeted, “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag—if they do, there must be consequences—perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!”Trump thinks about citizenship—and about taking it away—a lot. '

'His entry into Republican politics was an attack on President Barack Obama’s status as a “natural-born citizen.” He is also no fan of the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”In August 2015, Trump told a press conference that American-born children should not be citizens if their parents are undocumented. “A woman is getting ready to have a baby, she crosses the border for one day, has the baby, all of a sudden for the next 80 years, hopefully longer, but for the next 80 years we have to take care of the people. '

'No, no, no, I don’t think so … There are great legal scholars, the top, that say that’s absolutely wrong.”Trump misapprehends, to say the least, the state of scholarship. '

'Peter H. Schuck of Yale Law School and Rogers M. Smith, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, have for years been beating the drum for the idea that the Fourteenth Amendment means something radically different from its historical meaning, permitting Congress to strip these children of their citizenship and potentially render them stateless. '

' Though Schuck and Smith are respected, few other serious constitutional scholars have joined their parade. '


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[–] 14730823? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

He's not attempting to revoke it though. He's just going to put forth an executive order that stops the granting of citizenship by birthright. If the courts choose to do so (and I'm sure a liberal court will start this process), they can dispute the constitutionality of the EO, which would likely wind up at the Supreme Court for final determination of what the correct translation of the 14th amendment is in this regard.