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Fourteenth-Amendment
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The Soil Does Not Own You
In Trump v. Barbara the Court held that a child born to a tourist here for the weekend, or to a parent here illegally, is a citizen at birth, because the words ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ mean nothing more than being reachable …
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The Court Sided With the Soil
The Supreme Court just held that a child born to a tourist here for the weekend is an American at birth. To get there the majority revived a feudal rule that a free people threw off in 1776: that the ground you are born on owns you. Thomas …