Supreme Court Affirms Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship, Strikes Down Trump's Executive Order 26.3%
Reason.com - By Damon Root - 6/30/2026, 5:20 PM
Appeal to Authority 21.9% - Biased Writer Voice 20.4% - Confirmation Bias 18.3%
When the 14th Amendment was introduced in the U.S. Senate in 1866, the first senator to speak out in opposition to it was a Pennsylvania Republican named Edgar Cowan. He objected in part because the Citizenship Clause of the proposed amendment would make American citizens out of the U.S.-born children of unwelcome immigrants. "Is it... more