S.C. should keep its nose out of the birthright citizenship case, which is a political matter

[jacksonlamb]

I interpreted nothing. I posted, verbatim from the S.C. rulings. Stop making stuff up.

Then you gave your interpretation, which is not in line with Ark. You are wrong. You will lose the case. You will live with it.

 

[80zephyr]

Considering a preponderance of historical evidence from the debates of the 39th Congress clearly and undoubtedly indicates the 14th Amendment was always intended to grant U.S. citizenship to the offspring of all foreign nationals except children of foreign diplomats, born on American soil, AND strongly suspecting that SCOTUS will vote 8-1 or 7-2 to support such citizenship, I believe the writer of this thread's OP is going to be magnificently unhappy when that vote happens.

“On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”​

― Thomas Jefferson