But it begs the question as to "why"?? Congress didn't care about the definition of NBC in 2008. Why do they care now?? Why do they need a report that expands the definition beyond even the most twisted interpretation of Wong Kim Ark?? And why do we take the legal advice of one guy, when a 9-0 decision defined NBC exclusively as all children born in the country to parents who were its citizens??? Jack Maskell does NOT trump the Supreme Court.
edge919 wrote: “But it begs the question as to ‘why’?? Congress didn’t care about the definition of NBC in 2008. Why do they care now??”
Quite likely they’re getting letters from constituents. They probably got a few in 2008, but remember that until late in 2008, October or November, no one held the two-citizen-parent theory. The eligibility of the native-born may have been in doubt before the 14’th Amendment and its interpretation in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, but not in our time.
edge919 wrote: “And why do we take the legal advice of one guy, when a 9-0 decision defined NBC exclusively as all children born in the country to parents who were its citizens???”
So quote that “exclusively” part of your favorite decision there. Show where, even in dicta, the Court said *only* that class are NBC.
Congress employs experts such as Maskell because Congress need real experts, not pretenders.
edge919 wrote: “Jack Maskell does NOT trump the Supreme Court.”
Darn sure trumps birthers.