Kind of nuts that there are different rules for out-of-wedlock US citizen father vs out-of-wedlock US citizen mother.
Doesn’t that violate the 14th amendment? Equal protection and all that?
Doesn’t that violate the 14th amendment? Equal protection and all that?
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.
Supreme Court to Debate Birthright Citizenship Case.
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: