> Kind of nuts that there are different rules for out-of-wedlock US citizen father vs out-of-wedlock US citizen mother.
Why? I think that's the historical standard. True maternity has always been easy to establish, but paternity had to rely on legal institutions and custom.
According to the authors of the 14th amendment, the citizenship clause was meant to be retroactive, to right the wrongs of slavery, not a forward motion statute for the world.
Supreme Court to Debate Birthright Citizenship Case.
Are you stating that is true, or that that’s the argument the Trump administration is making right now?
Because the notion that the 14 amendment was supposed to be retroactive only is definitely not captured in some of those quotes here by the senators who debated it:
Why? I think that's the historical standard. True maternity has always been easy to establish, but paternity had to rely on legal institutions and custom.