Even legal, permanent residents who are still a citizen of another country will owe allegiance to that other country, and still be subject to their jurisdiction. That's why American citizens oversees, even under permanent visas, will still owe taxes to the United States government.
So, if this is your interpretation of the 14th Amendment, you would be excluding from citizenship, the children of both legal, permanent immigrant, not just illegals and temporary visa holders.
That is why the SG focused on the meaning of "reside" instead.
THAT IS CORRECT
and ‘reside” is not the constitutional standard
the court has the duty to decide cases on the constitution...and if it chooses to ignore the constitution and instead decide cases on substitute language ,,,the court only increases the contempt it is so widely held in
theres no point in having a constitution if the court chooses to disregard and/or disobey it in deciding cases. such decisions are in violation of the justices’ oaths of office. they destroy the social compact of our nation. and they are at their core fundamentally immoral.
as Founder of our republic and POTUS after George Washington explained, ‘Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.’
there is a constitutional process available if anyone wishes to amend the constitution as it is presently written. that would be the moral and just way for ‘birthright citizenship’ advocates to proceed.
proceed.