John Wagner for the Washington Post reports that President Trump is planning to sign an executive order that would seek to end the right to U.S. citizenship for children of noncitizens born on U.S. soil, he said in a television interview taped yesterday. The move, which would unquestionably violate the Fourteenth Amendment. For a brief discussion, see Garrett Epps’ piece in The Atlantic. Here is a summary of the views of 11 legal experts.
“We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits,” Trump said during an interview with Axios scheduled to air as part of a new HBO series starting this weekend. “It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”
