
Citizenship


Originalism and Birthright Citizenship (again)
I have posted a revised version of Originalism and Birthright Citizenship (Georgetown L.J., forthcoming) on SSRN. This should be close to the final version. Thanks to readers of this blog and of Volokh Conspiracy for helpful comments. I want to respond briefly to...
More on Senator Harris and the Natural Born Citizen Clause
At Newsweek, John Eastman (Chapman): Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility. From the core of the argument: The language of Article II is that one must be a natural-born citizen [to be President]. The original Constitution did not define citizenship, but...
Is Kamala Harris a Natural Born Citizen?
At Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh: Yes, Kamala Harris Is Indeed a Natural-Born Citizen. From the introduction: I saw over the weekend that some people argue that Kamala Harris is ineligible to be Vice-President: apparently her parents weren’t citizens when...Birthright Citizenship: Originalism and Nonoriginalism
President Trump has put the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause in the news. The question is whether the language in the Amendment—“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United...