Trump v. Barbara · ¶482

The interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause set out above is based entirely on the text and legal context of that Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It does not depend in any way on the record of the debates on those two enactments. But to the extent that congressional debates on the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act are probative, they strongly support my textual interpretation.

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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