Panel: Congress has power to buck SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling - The Daily Bo Snerdley

Panel: Congress has power to buck SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling | The Highland County Press

As the Trump administration continues to pursue ways to quell “birth tourism,” legal scholars are probing potential actions Congress could take to rewrite the common interpretation of the 14th amendment’s citizenship clause.

Panel: Congress has power to buck SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling - The Daily Bo Snerdley

  (The Center Square) – As the Trump administration continues to pursue ways to quell “birth tourism,” legal scholars are probing potential actions Congress could take to rewrite the common interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause. The clause states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” That phrase has been interpreted over the las…