ONLINE: The Guarantee of Birthright Citizenship

Online Event by Brennan Center for Justice at NYU - https://www.brennancenter.org/about

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Date: Thursday, June 12 9:30 am to 10:30 am PST

Free, but you must register here: https://brennan.swoogo.com/birthrightcitzenship/begin?ref=EventsNewsletter060224

It will be posted on their YouTube channel after the event. You will find lots of other discussions on important legal and constitutional matters there.

On the very first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to strip U.S. citizenship from the children of undocumented immigrants. The order directly conflicts with the plain language of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” And it defies more than a century of case law.
The executive order met with immediate legal challenges and a wave of court rulings blocking its enforcement, and it is destined for a Supreme Court showdown. The history of the 14th Amendment will likely play a key role in the outcome of the case. What historical currents led to the ratification of the amendment’s Citizenship Clause? What did the framers intend? How did courts interpret its guarantees in the decades following? How do today’s attacks on birthright citizenship relate to historical attempts to deny citizenship to people born and living in the United States?
Join the Brennan Center virtually on Thursday, June 12, at 12:30 p.m. ET for a discussion with leading experts on the historical and legal dimensions of the attack on birthright citizenship.

Produced in partnership with the Organization of American Historians
Speakers:

• Kate Masur, Professor of History, Northwestern University
• Martha Jones, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
• Erika Lee, Bae Family Professor of History, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Harvard University
• Thomas Wolf, Director of Democracy Initiatives, Founder of Historians Council on the Constitution, Brennan Center
• Moderator: Kareem Crayton, Vice President for Washington, DC, Brennan Center