birthright

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It’s the latter portion — “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” — that leaves room for interpretation, forming the beachhead upon which legal arguments against birthright citizenship have been mounted.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

The Supreme Court case establishing birthright citizenship involved a Chinese American man named Wong Kim Ark, born to parents who came here legally but couldn’t become citizens because of the era’s anti-Chinese laws.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Would her child, she asked, be denied birthright citizenship?

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

Some members of the court’s six-justice conservative majority voiced clear unease about upending birthright citizenship to deal with modern problems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Present or no, the royal blood of Oyo, of the Egba, was not the great birthright handed down to me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson