As Sen Jacob Howard, who was one of the primary authors of the amendment and who introduced it into the US Senate said, “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”
And Sen. Lyman Trumbull, who co-sponsored the 14th Amendment, also specified “that all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, and hereby declared to be citizens of the United States.”
Originalists on SCOTUS should have no problem with agreeing with Trump based on what those who wrote the Amendment said about it when they wrote it.
Posted by Pappy_Dru_It
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If I had a time machine… “Cool. Now throw it away and write it again like you’re talking to a fucking 3-year-old.”
You would think so. But no. All we can do is cross our fingers and hope with SCOTUS. This should have been settled a very long time ago.