“The examples you give to support that strike me as very quirky, you know, children of ambassadors, children of enemies during a hostile invasion, children on warships, and then you expand it to a whole class of illegal aliens,” Roberts said. “I’m not quite sure how you can get to that big group from such tiny and sort of idiosyncratic examples.”
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, meanwhile, stated at one point that the Administration’s assertions about the historical context surrounding the 14th Amendment’s ratification were “not textual.”
Trump was present in the courtroom, marking the first time a sitting President has ever attended Supreme Court oral arguments.
In a post on Truth Social after the hearing, he claimed that “we are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” According to Pew Research Center, however, 32 other countries have substantively similar laws.
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