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A Criticism of Wong Kim Ark (1898) Author’s Note: If parents have existing foreign citizenship, the 14th Amendment ‘born in the United States’ citizenship at birth clause DOES NOT APPLY to their children. WHY? Because the child already has the citizenship of their parents. The 14th Amendment was drafted from the 1866 Civil Rights Act…
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Soon, the Trump administration will argue the unconstitutionality of Birthright Citizenship before the U.S. Supreme Court. They will rely on the original intent of the 14th Amendment, and the misinterpretation and violation of the amendment by the 1898 Supreme Court in Wong Kim Ark. The following should just about make you an expert in how…
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543 words (tens of thousands in linked posts) As I’ve written now in 36 articles, ‘birthright citizenship’ didn’t start with the 14th Amendment (1866-1869) but the Wong Kim Ark case (1898). The Chinese were a major influence in San Francisco and California; thanks to immigration, their work ethic, and ease of access to the California…
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Eugene Volokh is a professor at UCLA and best know for his Washington Post ‘blog’ column, ‘The Volokh Conspiracy.’ 2020, he wrote an opinon on the Article II eligibility of Barack Obama referencing the 1898 Wong Kim Ark case, which created ‘out of whole cloth’ a totally new form of ‘citizenship at birth,’ for children…
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Link to Part I: https://paraleaglenm.com/2024/01/13/january-6-2021-house-objections-to-bidens-electors/ How many of you have read the entire Congressional Record for January 6th? The purpose of this blog is to extract essential speeches made that day. It is clear from this record that the planned attack on the Capitol had a detrimental effect on the debates and votes in support…
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