Elections Have Consequences: Sheehy (R) joins birthright citizenship battle with fellow Congressmen [View all]

U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, the Treasure State’s junior senator, has signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief filed at the United States Supreme Court that argues against the common understanding of birthright citizenship, and leans heavily on case that was originally used to deny Native Americans citizenship in the nineteenth century.

Sheehy, a Republican, joined other members of Congress, including fellow U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in the court filing that says citizenship should be based on the person or parents’ allegiance rather than where a person is born.

The case is one of the most-watched legal issues before the Supreme Court as it decides whether the commonly understood practice of birthright citizenship — that is, granting citizenship to those born on United States soil regardless of the parents’ nationality — is still in line with the U.S. Constitution’s 14th amendment, which was passed in 1866 and established former slaves who were born as chattel in the South were fully citizens.

The brief filed at the Supreme Court level by the America First Legal Foundation argues that birthright citizenship has been misconstrued for years, and Congress meant to exclude some people who were born on U.S. soil.



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