Alan Dershowitz: Birthright Citizenship Is ‘Bizarre’

Breitbart ^ | 08/20/2015 | Jeff Poor

[E. Pluribus Unum]

On NewsMax TV’s “Prime” earlier this week, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz took on the current ongoing argument about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, which has been raised in recent days over Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his immigration policy that questions the citizenship of those born in the United States from parents here illegally.

Dershowitz said although it was technically constitutional for those born here not of U.S. citizens to be considered citizens, it defied logic but was unlikely to change in the short-term.

[sushiman]

Even better !

[Stanwood_Dave]

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. Short & sweet, and to the point.

I will be using / coping this to use else where.:-)

P.S. Thank you Alan Dershowitz for my tag line.

Testimony of Alan M. Dershowitz House of Representatives Judiciary Committee December 1, 1998

Alan Morton Dershowitz, a.k.a., Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz Reference: "TESTILYING" Testilying

http://www.constitution.org/lrev/dershowitz_test_981201.htm

See also below http://www.soc.umn.edu/~samaha/cases/slobogin,%20testilying.htm

(Cite as: 67 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1037)

University of Colorado Law Review Fall 1996 Reform The Police *1037 TESTILYING: POLICE PERJURY AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

[Redbob]

"And he thinks that the constructors of the 14th amendment were the dumbest people on earth..."

I completely agree with Prof. Dershowitz on that point.

[semimojo]

The Professor has it right, and the reason it seems bizarre today is that there was no such thing as illegal immigration at the time the 14th was drafted. If there had been the amendment may well have been worded differently, but it wasn't. So now our solution is to repeal/ replace the amendment.