“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
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...
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...
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...
DENVER, Colo. (Nov. 24, 2016) – In yet another example of extreme federal overreach, the U.S. Department of Justice recently fined the Denver County Sheriff’s Office because it disqualified non-citizens from applying for open deputy positions. In early...