Can a president, through executive order, "simply stop the issuance of citizenship to illegal anchor babies"? If so, expect riots like we've never seen. Not that I don't approve of the idea, but they better be ready when the shit hits the fan. Also, I can't see this being applied retroactively. Can an already declared American citizen be declared illegal? That problematic to say the least. From a date moving forward, I approve, but talk about a shit storm coming. WOW!The dirty little secret of Constitutional Law is that the 14th Amendment is a poorly drafted abomination. It is never criticized by law professors because liberals began using it about 50 years ago to push their policy preferences as supposed constitutional requirements.
The birth citizenship provision is probably the most benign feature of it. As Coulter demonstrated, it was designed to remove doubts about the citizenship of slaves. The mischief came decades later when courts began applying increasingly bizarre interpretations, reaching its apex when the certifiable nutcase Justice Brennan penned his idiotic footnote. This is the same justice incidentally who wanted to give trees and wild animals standing to litigate enivronmental cases.
As President, Trump could restore the original meaning by simply stopping the issuance of citizenship to illegal anchor babies. At the very least, we could then get a definitive Supreme Court ruling. Better yet, congress could pass a law clarifying matters.