Justice Brett Kavanaugh sounded like a fired-up prosecutor last year as he shot off a withering series of nuts-and-bolts questions about how President Donald Trump would carry out his plan to rewrite of the way birthright citizenship has been understood in the United States for more than a century.
No no. I’m absolutely certain that the Trump administration considers birthright citizenship to be a problem—when it’s non-white babies that are getting citizenship.
They need to stop beating around the bush and just say that.