1860s debate may doom Trump at the Supreme Court: 'No, yeah, we mean them'

President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship argument before the Supreme Court faces an April 1 showdown in Trump v. Barbara — but a new legal analysis warns he's about to get demolished by history.

The case challenges birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, but constitutional experts say the Framers of the amendment already settled this debate with unmistakable clarity, Slate's Dahlia Lithwick wrote Monday.

According to constitutional historian Anna O. Law, author of...