JUST IN: Trump Launches New Plan To End Birthright Citizenship, Sidestep SCOTUS

constitutional analysis. Kavanaugh concluded that the order did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Instead, he determined that it contravened a federal statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a), which codifies aspects of birthright citizenship.

“Congress could—consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment—amend §1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing continue reading …