"Excluding Indians": Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court

[LeftInTX]

82. He's citing old laws against Native Americans to justify Trump's EO against non-citizens.

Native Americans were not natural-borne citizens until a special law in 1924. So, the lawyer is saying that children of non-citizens can't be natural borne s because Native Americans were not natural-borne citizens until there was a law that gave them citizenship.

He's not trying to declare Native Americans as non-citizens nor is the EO undoing the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

It doesn't say anything about Native Americans in the EO. The EO only refers to non-citizens. Native Americans are US citizens.

This came up numerous times in the 19th century after the 14th Amendment was passed.

The Trump lawyer is a heritage foundation guy who goes back to old cases. Also the heritage foundation would LOVE to eliminate the 14th Amendment. It's been their wet dream like forever.

None of the other MSM sources are interpreting the hearing this way. Just Salon is interpreting it this way. Until Trump writes an EO to eliminate the Indian Citizenship Act, I'm not gonna worry about it. The Salon article fails to mention that Native Americans were granted full citizenship in 1924 and fails to mention the Indian Citizenship Act.