Trump’s birthright citizenship crusade draws backing from cohort of prominent legal scholars

A group of at least seven law professors have mounted a campaign to challenge the longstanding interpretation of birthright citizenship, arguing in favor of former President Donald Trump’s effort to narrow the constitutional provision, even as Supreme Court justices signal skepticism.The legal scholars' arguments aim to persuade the Supreme Court and opponents of Trump's efforts that there are serious originalist and historical arguments for narrowing birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment that deserve consideration rather than dismissal as a fringe political theory.Ilan Wurman, a law...

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