Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Cost US Economy $7.7 Trillion - Asian Journal News

Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Cost US Economy $7.7 Trillion - Asian Journal News

Hundreds of people rallied outside the Supreme Court April 1 as justices heard oral arguments upholding birthright citizenship. (Photo courtesy of the South Asian American Justice Collaborative)   By Sunita Sohrabji President Donald Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship — which the Supreme Court is currently considering — would create a permanent underclass of stateless children and a brain drain as…

Richard Epstein: Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Arguments Reflected Fundamental Failure to Read the Naturalization Statutes

Three major leaks from the Supreme Court in four years, a pattern with no modern precedent for an institution historically defined by its secrecy, provided the backdrop for a conversation with University of Chicago Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law Richard Epstein, whose new book The Myth of Birthright Citizenship publishes May 1st and whose analysis of the recent oral arguments produced a withering assessment of the constitutional…