Fix the 14th Amendment, Not the Court

The Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara does more than uphold a broad view of birthright citizenship. It reads into the Fourteenth Amendment a sweeping right for foreign nationals that the text,

The dispute centered on whether a president can reinterpret the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

Ending birth tourism would respect the intention of the 14th Amendment.

While more than 30 countries have birthright citizenship policies that effectively mirror that of the United States, most nations do not grant citizenship on that standard. Here are the 10 most populous countries without birthright citizenship.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused Clarence Thomas of echoing Dred Scott by opposing the birthright citizenship ruling under the 14th Amendment.

The House speaker said Congress must fight to end birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court blocked Trump's executive order.

In the annals of Supreme Court decisions, the public likely remembers what justices wrote for the court in famous cases, such as the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that outlawed racial segregation in public schools.