The Trump Administration Is Violating the Constitution. This Legal Theory Can Help Us Move Forward.

This op-ed explains the concept of “popular constitutionalism.”

In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is likely to release decisions in a number of cases that will fundamentally impact the lives of millions. But we don’t need to wait until nine elite lawyers in robes weigh in to know some basics about our rights and freedoms here in the US.

For example, we know that stripping people born in the United States of their citizenship, as the Trump administration has proposed doing, is unconstitutional. It’s right there in the Fourteenth Amendment: All persons born in the United States “are citizens of the United States.” You don’t need to be a Supreme Court justice to understand what that means. You don’t even need a law degree to know without a doubt that the Constitution makes it clear that people born in the United States are citizens from birth.

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