Just Make It Go Away

Be sure to read today’s piece by Tierney Sneed on how ending birthright citizenship migrated from far right legal circles to the centerpiece policy push of the 2016 presidential campaign. The key is that they’re saying we don’t even need to amend the 14th Amendment. We can just pretend the 14th amendment doesn’t say what it plainly says and read it out of the Constitution altogether. And with the way the current Court snaps up cockamamy right wing legal theories these days, they could be right.