Attempts to rewrite the 14th Amendment by Executive order are NOT NORMAL
- Sarah Kate Levy
- Jan 22
- 1 min read
It's not normal to try to overwrite the Constitution with an Executive Order.
It's even less normal to post, on a government website, that "the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States."
This is patently untrue. Over a 100 years ago, "In the landmark 1898 decision of United States v. Wong Kim Ark,[2] the Court held that a person born in San Francisco to Chinese parents – who, at the time, were not permitted to naturalize as U.S. citizens – nonetheless became a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth by virtue of the 14th Amendment. As the Court explained, “[t]o hold that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution excludes from citizenship the children born in the United States of citizens or subjects of other countries, would be to deny citizenship to thousands of persons of English, Scotch, Irish, German, or other European parentage, who have always been considered and treated as citizens of the United States.”
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