Randy Barnett & Ilan Wurman had a guest essay in the N.Y. Times on Feb. 15th: “Trump Might Have a Case on Birthright Citizenship.” The bottom line is that their essay backfires, because their main source for their supposed “allegiance-for-protection theory” is a single sentence from Lincoln’s Attorney General Edward Bates in 1862), but just […]
Birthright Citizenship: Barnett & Wurman’s NY Times Essay and their Bates/Blackstone Double Backfire
SOOOO… Once again, it appears the New York Times has published a garbage essay. Not just something I didn’t read very much of (yay, time not wasted), but actual garbage.
Here is an apparent “originalist” deep dive that also comes to conclusion that it was garbage. Trump does *not* have a case, in any sense of the phrase.
Here, Read This 