No contest: Supreme Court must uphold birthright citizenship |
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on a case of long-settled law that shouldn’t even be before the justices: birthright citizenship.
The court will weigh Donald Trump’s outlandish executive order purporting to end the automatic grant of citizenship to those born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants. We doubt anything else as patently unconstitutional — say, an order banning all private firearm ownership in the United States — would have made it this far, but now the court has the chance to once more put it to bed for good.
Some might make social or political arguments in favor or against birthright citizenship for those Trump has derided as so-called “anchor babies.” But it would be a very dangerous thing to have a system where there is a permanent underclass of people who........