Thursday, May 15, 2025

Will the Supreme Court Let Trump Target Babies for the “Sins of the Parents”? – Mother Jones

"It's definitely inconsistent with a long standing conservative principle that we're all individuals, and the Constitution and the Equal Protection Clause in particular, protect individuals, not groups," says Cristina Rodríguez, a Yale Law professor and expert on birthright citizenship. "That's part of the understanding of the birthright citizenship clause—that whatever the sins of the parents are, the clause breaks that connection. What matters is where the individual was born."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship/ 


 

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