Trump v. Barbara · ¶255

Scholars agreed, as well, that the Citizenship Clause required domicile. As early as 1875, Yale Law School Professor William Robinson wrote that a “native-born citizen” was “one who was born within the jurisdiction and allegiance of the United States.” Notes on Elementary Law, at 70. And, to be born within the jurisdiction and allegiance of the United States, a person “born within the territory of the United States, of alien parents,” had to show that those parents were “permanently domiciled within the United States.” Ibid.

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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