Birthright citizenship supporters get the law wrong by ignoring obvious evidence

Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for that matter, lawful aliens such as tourists or foreign diplomats.   

That includes our good friend, Professor John Yoo. On Dec. 10, he published an op-ed insisting that arguments for a more limited interpretation of the citizenship clause must "disregard the plain text of the Constitution, the...