Trump dismisses a century of constitutional scholarship in bid to end birthright citizenship

John Yoo quoted in Yahoo! News, October 31, 2018

“The 14th Amendment settled the question of birthright citizenship,” John Yoo, a Berkeley law professor who served in the George W. Bush administration, wrote in a recent essay. “According to the best reading of its text, structure and history, anyone born on American territory, no matter their national origin, ethnicity or station in life, is an American citizen.”