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ACLU Lawyer makes argument against Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship
MSNBC· 2026-04-01 16:40
understood to be narrower than its text would read. Yes. But that's not the text, so I guess we don't need to deal with that.Sure. And that brings me back to my third point, which is you can't read not subject to any foreign power the way the government urges you to without making the children of all foreign nationals noncitizens. And that's clearly not what the framers were doing.Justice Alito and Justice Kagan raised an interpretive question that I think is important, which is are the exceptions, you've u ...