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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…