OPINION:
Regardless of how this spineless Supreme Court decides “birthright citizenship,” it is simply not allowed under the 14th Amendment, period (“Supreme Court justices skeptical of Trump’s birthright citizenship order,” Web, April 1).
The 14th Amendment was created specifically to provide citizenship to freed slaves and their children. It was a government administrator — not a president, the House or Senate, and certainly not any of the federal courts — that implemented birthright citizenship as we have it today.
Of course, no one could have foreseen how it would be abused against the interests of the United States. Birthright citizenship did not, for example, include American Indians in any tribe, as their allegiance was to their own tribal governments, not to the U.S. It took a separate act of Congress to make American Indians U.S. citizens.
Unfortunately, what this court should do and what it will do are likely two very different things.
BOB SEGAL
Burke, Virginia
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