t doesn’t confer citizenship on everyone born in the U.S. That amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
Opponents of birthright citizenship fixate on the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” and argue that it places substantial limits on who can be a citizen. The usual context in which this quibble is raised is immigration. The argument is that undocumented immigrants aren’t subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. and thus their children born in this country aren’t citizens. But that argument has been repeatedly rejected by the federal courts.
Eastman’s twist is to suggest that Harris may not be a citizen because her Indian mother and Jamaican father might have been in this country on student visas and thus weren’t subject to the “complete” jurisdiction of the U.S. As he explains it, Harris would “derivatively” share the same status. To put it mildly, this exercise in insinuation isn’t persuasive. In an article that also appears on Newsweek’s website, UCLA law professor
decisively dismantles the argument against Harris’ citizenship, with citations to the framers of the Constitution and the legal thinker William Blackstone.But to dwell on the legal objections to Eastman’s argument is to miss the point that it’s not going anywhere, except maybe into the inbox of Trump opposition-research trolls. Voters will evaluate Biden and Harris on their qualifications, and if they win Harris will be sworn in as vice president.
opinion Who cares about the birther thing. Lets talk about the innocent people she killed on death row....
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opinion unfairly insinuated = he lied!
opinion Kamala Harris disastrous for Democrats. As Biden’s cognitive weakness shows, indirectly USA will be voting for Kamala Harris. Democrats voters didn’t want her as she lost at the primary so early. 75% USA against China’s Regime communism. Harris & Biden clueless against it.
opinion Interesting how News Corp editorial staff are taking this in Australia. They have another slant, blatant racism. Published in 'The Australian' today
opinion 'OPINION'?!!?!? What in tf, LA Times?
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opinion Ok, She’s a citizen. Of Jamaica or India?😂
opinion .realDonaldTrump do not let the scum MSM pull you back into the birther debate. This time they started it , and now want to pin the tail on you. If you go this birther route, it will become a protective force field around her & no attack on her record will matter!
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opinion IF ONE PERFORMS AN AUTOPSY ON TRUMP LATER, MAYBE HIS CAUSE OF DEATH WILL BE A PROGRESSIVE HEART ATTACK SECONDARY TO INSANITY BECAUSE OF FEAR OF KAMALA!!!
opinion HERE WE GO!!! SHE'S A CITIZEN BORN IN AMERICA!!!
opinion KAMALA LIS A CITIZEN... TRUMP AND HIS COHORTS ARE 'SIXTY CENTS' 40 CENTS SHORT OF THE DOLLAR IN ABSOLUTE VALUES!!!
opinion Newsweek is nothing more than a NY Post wannabe. Admitidly a boring copy.
opinion And this is run as an opinion piece, why?
DZaia40 opinion And Nancy gave an equally weak excuse for the author & the magazne.
opinion THANK YOU!!!!!!
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opinion RecallGavin2020
opinion I’m old enough to remember when Newsweek wouldn’t even entertain publishing an article like this.
opinion Why opinion? Why not report as news?
opinion Newsweek is still read by anyone? Anyone who publishes this gobshite doesn’t belong anywhere near an editorial board. Then again, NW is parroting Fox and OAN now, so there’s that.
opinion What qualifies her?
opinion Obviously she is.
opinion Birtherism. Vulgar then. Vulgar now.
opinion She’s from Eritrea VoetsekANC
opinion That's a funny way of spelling racist ploy.
opinion Can you report beyond a doubt obama was born in the United States and eligible to have been president?
opinion Let this idiot make a fool of himself, he dogged Obama for the same reason. He’s just scared of a powerful black women.
opinion She looks pale, just saying
opinion Stop Dreaming.
opinion Nope. She is bought and sold to the highest bidder. If she’s qualified so was Monica Lesinski
opinion I agree
opinion As was Charles Manson
opinion 2%
opinion She is eligible to run but NOT qualified to be VP or President...she is there only because of her gender and color
opinion Oh damn.....I guess after 8 years of the imbecile trump claiming Obama , without any proof, was not born in Hawaii, the Biden team forgot to check Kamala’s birth certificate.....has anyone checked trumps birth certificate....last I checked, Russian nationals cannot be president!
opinion She may have been born here but she definitely is not qualified
opinion The LA Leftist Times is actively campaigning for Biden & Harris , Every article favors the Democrats , Honesty and impartiality are long gone , President Trump may get one favorable comment a month if he’s lucky !!!
opinion If your not white, according to racists birthers, your born god knows where
opinion LOL....Qualified for what? Yeah, if Willie says so it must be true.
opinion Trumps folks were immigrants is he qualified to be president?
opinion What a surprise. Another fawning story about a Democrat. I've never seen one about a Republican. So that says everything.
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opinion Lol, no she is not!!!!
opinion IF THERE ARE PERSONS QUESTIONING KAMALA'S QUALIFICATIONS... MANY OF THEM ARE NO-READ NO WRITE AND NO RIGHT TO EXIST LIKE A VIRUS!!!
opinion Birther attacks? Again?
opinion You’re a newspaper. Start acting like it
opinion Yes. She's qualified ..... to run up 50 Trillion in deficits, bankrupt the USA, and enslave the people into debt and tyranny. But technically, qualified. Yes.
opinion We always take the bait. We're no better than Trump producing a birth certificate to prove his mother wasn't an Orangutan.
opinion Truthfully idc if she came from Antarctica I don't want her as potus or VP.
opinion She is also eligible as she has no consistent principles, is ambitious and will say whatever is needed to win votes. A 'pragmatist' unlike Bernie Sanders.
opinion A native-born citizen is not a natural-born citizen. Two very different things, in fact.
opinion Kamala Harris is a tough and smart woman. She can make Donald Trump & useless Mike Pence her bitches at the same time on any f*ckn debate.
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opinion More neutral and unbiased reporting by the LATimes!!! Immediately, you jump on the liberal bandwagon and make her seem like some sort of qualified savior. She’s not!
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opinion LA Times opinion...lol.
opinion GOD help us all if her socialist ideological self should win. She lies each and every time her lips move. I hope someone is watching out for Joe, she will stab him in the back and not think twice.
opinion No not really she has harmed minority communities, so has Biden throughout his career . Minorities will get nothing from them
opinion Wow. Took that one on fast LA Times. You must have good leftist funding!
opinion Define extremely? A skirt, bra n annoying laugh doesn’t make u extremely qualified. Talk about her record as AG. Let’s talk about all the priests she fail to prosecute, at the expense of their victims. Instead is covering up her failures n promoting her gender n race
opinion How much does DNC pay you
opinion Here we go again with another LIE that Trump drove the economy to the ground we have never seen best economy till covid 19 this woman is not only a LIAR she changes like the weather she is a MORON.
opinion Harris's Irish great, great grandfather indeed owned slaves.
opinion I dont know or care about her ethnicity. I do know she raised 39 million for her presidential run and spent 40 million to poll at 2%.
opinion More qualified than the current president.
opinion Can this paper schil for the Democrat party any more obviously? It boggle the mind that the general public even read this partisan crap.
MiaFarrow opinion Thank you
opinion If it God's will for her and Biden to filled that Job, right now it doesn't look like it will.
opinion Well the people have already made it quite clear that we want no part of her being the president nor the vice president. This is where we should start.
opinion She is an anchor baby.
opinion Extremely “qualified “? The woman is another corrupt politician from Calif. who maneuvered her way up the ladder by the company she kept. Now she is the VP candidate based on a color n gender pallet n not her experience or leadership. Harris sways with the political wind.
opinion As a Californian, she screwed up our state. We don’t want her as VP
opinion Eligible and qualified yes. 'Extremely qualified' is hyperbole.
opinion You are a FAKE! KamalaHarris SenKamalaHarris
opinion All of the sudden she's from immigrant stock and South Asian after being Black when running for office in California.
symonelyfy opinion EXACTLY. Let's not start that BIRTHER BULLSHIT IDIOCY AGAIN.
opinion So extremely qualified she was nobodys choice during the primaries
opinion Sooooo who u voting for 🤷♂️?
katsndogs opinion Ok let me try here. No one seems to be picking up on the fact that Presidential candidate Ted Cruz was born in Canada yet Kamala Harris is getting the questionable American citizen controversy from the GOP. How was he able to run for President. (Mom USA citizen?)
opinion The fact that 'birtherism' is still festering in minds of Republican leaders is more evidence that they are infected with a brain-eating disease and need to be isolated.
opinion John McCain born in Coco Solo, Panama. Ted Cruz born in Canada. Mark Meadows born in France. Barack Obama born in Hawaii. Kamala Harris born in California. Do RepubliCONS take geography in school? Sad. Kakistocracy VoteBlueNoMatterWho
opinion NFW
MiaFarrow opinion And she WILL be. - SoCal
opinion ......👊......
opinion As if being born in the USA, automatically makes you a decent person.
opinion Nah
opinion welcome to QAnon (formerly known as the Republican Party)
MiaFarrow opinion Offs
opinion bye bitch
MiaFarrow opinion Piss boy is desperate.
opinion Na, I vote for the one that is anti-abortion, not the one that legalizes murder of unborn children.
opinion Your opinion, is in fact, not fact
opinion Who says, this man? Aww fock! 😲
opinion I'd trust Michelle Obama to be VP more than Kamala. Kamala got baggage on her like she was Hillary.
opinion You should ask her about all the fellas she put👉🏾 in jail for smoking weed, while she was smoking weed🤮
opinion Well, the Democrats did this with John McCain - born in Panama of 2 US citizens stationed abroad, and with Sen Obama in 2007. LAT's doesn't like politics when it doesn't support their cause and agenda.
opinion Can a immigrant be first lady of the U S should have been in question
opinion Dont care if she was born on mars... Trump is not a tough person to be better than
opinion Her dad was a radical Marxist who wrote 'Capitalist Exploitation and Black Labor: Some Conceptual Issues' (1978). Her mom was just as bad. Kamala is a radical with an absolutely horrendous track record as a prosecutor. Nobody liked her in the primaries. This is a JOKE!
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