""Stare Decisis". After close to a 150 years of precedent, you really think the Supreme Court is going to change the definition of citizenship? Doubt four Scalia clones would do that."
you've done little but demonstrate an ability to be evasive and contrarian with no real offering of any potential solutions. IN fact, you've done little but argue that because something has been done incorrectly that it'll stay that way. This type of logic guarantees failure. You don't seem real interested in the problem, only shooting down any potential solution.
Scalia is one of the main proponents of stare decisis and anyone familiar with him and the USSC knows that. Maybe you meant 4 Thomas clones. But then, the focus of the USSC nominations involved getting people on the court who would interpret laws through an originalist perspective. Thus stare decisis would not really be an obstacle, except for those that believe bad law should continue to be upheld. That's a ridiculous proposition for someone on a 'conservative' site.
And it seems pretty clear from that quote by the co-drafter of the 14th, that there really isn't 150 years of precedent. Maybe a 100, maybe even 120, but I highly doubt RIGHT after that amendment was ratified that illegal aliens' children were considered citizen and that this was upheld in court decisions of the time.
Criticism is one thing, but you only seem to offer obstructionism. If we were debating the 2nd, I wonder if you'd do nothing but offer up objections using current gun laws and oversteps of governmental power on that matter too?
If I had a real solution to this problem I would run for high elected office but Im not. What I have been attempting to do is show that there are good reasons why politicians havent just "done the right thing" and put up a wall, shot all invaders, rounded up 20 million illegals and shipped them home..all in a day. Its not a conspiracy that Bush and the Tri-lateralists have to depress your wages or put the white man down, it's a complex problem and pushing down on one lever just causes another problem somewhere else in the system.