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EPISODE · Oct 3, 2025 · 42 MIN

Birthright Citizenship

from Supreme Betrayal: How the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Have Failed America · host Mark Tushnet, Louis Michael Seidman

Why are the birthright citizenship cases both not such a big deal and a big deal? After going through the arguments for the Trump administration’s position in some detail (the arguments against it are so obvious that we don’t spend much time on them), we situate the cases in the administration’s larger policy and ideological agendas: from a policy point of view they aren’t that big a deal, but from an ideological one they might be.

Why are the birthright citizenship cases both not such a big deal and a big deal? After going through the arguments for the Trump administration’s position in some detail (the arguments against it are so obvious that we don’t spend much time on them), we situate the cases in the administration’s larger policy and ideological agendas: from a policy point of view they aren’t that big a deal, but from an ideological one they might be.

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Why are the birthright citizenship cases both not such a big deal and a big deal? After going through the arguments for the Trump administration’s position in some detail (the arguments against it are so obvious that we don’t spend much time on...

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