The other day, noted legal expert Bill O'Reilly (I'm being facetious; he has no legal training) thundered that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on anyone who is born in the United States, including the offspring of illegal aliens. Bill's reading of the Constitution is at the level of a fourth-grader. I was so upset by his ignorance, arrogance, and dogmatism that I wrote to him with a link, which I'm sure he ignored. My only goal was to prove to him that the question is complicated rather than simple, hard rather than easy. (I wrote my doctoral dissertation on constitutional interpretation, so I know whereof I speak.) A few minutes ago, Mark Spahn sent me a link to Ann Coulter's latest column, which puts O'Reilly in his place. Don't expect Bombastic Bill to admit error. He will double down on it. Mark my words.
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