Senator Eric Schmidt
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It didn't mean that if you were here as an ambassador and had a child, that your child was then an American citizen.
That's never what it meant.
And the drafters of the 14th Amendment were pretty clear about that.
So I think that if you take a sort of an originalist or textualist view,
of the 14th Amendment and how this came about, which was meant to bestow citizenship on the children of slaves who were recently emancipated, you can't come to the conclusion that the system that we have now was intended.
I would hope so.
I would hope so.
I think that's something we should move forward on.
I think that this is a we'll see what the court does.
The 14th Amendment, I think, kind of makes it clear.
So I think probably after the disposition of that case, we'll know a lot more.
And we wouldn't want to undermine, I don't think, any of the arguments because I think right now that is the case, right?
That this current interpretation of birthright citizenship is counter to the original public meaning of the 14th Amendment.
But I do think highlighting these issues and the actual abuse, which is the point of the hearing that we had earlier today.
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