DeSantis: Framers Of The 14th Amendment Didn’t Intend To Grant Citizenship To Children Of “Illegals”
“The purpose of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was to overturn the Dred Scott case, not to bestow citizenship on those present in the U.S. against the people’s will as expressed in law.
“The executive order will be litigated until the Supreme Court decides the question, which it has never decided, of whether children born to illegal aliens get constitutionally-mandated citizenship. The framers of the amendment clearly did not believe so.
“[Newly appointed senator] Ashley Moody could have a chance to confirm a conservative jurist to replace a liberal justice. That might be necessary to get the desired ruling – I’m not sure there are currently five votes on the Supreme Court for the notion that the 14th Amendment does not give birthright citizenship to illegals.
“If
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