I know I’m a broken record on this but:

A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

March 29, 2026 - 14:59 UTC

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Remind our government and S C that our founders said to start over if tyranny \ non representative government! With our numbers we can force the 3k rich nuts \ politicians responsible for this mess into exile where they belong! They gave that money to Argentina so they can self deport! LFG!
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You know you must write a book about this, right?
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Of course I will
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They are funded by very wealthy rightwing donors, no?
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I’m retired after 41 years primarily doing criminal defense (trial and appellate) work. So, pretty far removed from academia. All I can tell you is your work is invaluable, not only to meet the moment, but also so that future generations will have a clear picture of the heroes and the degenerates.
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It's pretty clear that the fact that this is a possibility has been an obvious flaw in legal scholarship for years, and really needed to be dealt with a long time ago, not reflexively at the last second.
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the stakes are high

this is literally the civil rights issue of our time
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They are doing so w/out any plausible argument from the Constitution’s text or written. They have revised and rewritten and evaded and ignored or dismissed substantive criticism from experts in their field. This is known within the academy. They have been told. They have been refuted. They persist.
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If they succeed they will have functionally amended the Constitution and created a underclass subject to state domination. They have no good reason for doing this. The law is not on their side. We will see whether mere power is.
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Hitler and the Nazi Party used intimidation and persecution to ensure the outcome they desired.

The Supreme Court did nothing to challenge the legitimacy of this measure.
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Instead, it accepted the majority vote, overlooking the absence of the Communist delegates and the Social Democrats who were under arrest.

In fact, most judges were convinced of the legitimacy of the process and did not understand why the Nazis proclaimed a “Nazi Revolution.
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If they succeed, would they in theory have an opening to strip citizenship from existing citizens (given the premise is that constitutionally they were never citizens at all)?
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Yeah, I mean this is a problem. If the plain words of the 14th Ammendment don't tell us who is a citizen, then who does?
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That is their ultimate goal.
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It seems like it’s the inverse of recent Canadian citizenship law changes (where they declared that millions of Americans had been Canadian citizens all along).
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In theory yes.
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This is the kind of thing that in saner times would meet the unanimous rebuke "Well if you want that, you're going to have to amend the constitution about it again. Rotsa ruck."
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Without pausing to consider the harm this could cause. At all.
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We the people must not let this happen.

All kids deserve human rights & dignity.

For the professors making moves to make kids stateless- Name them and shame them.
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I'm fully expecting this to be the justification for throwing most of us undesirables into detention centers. The queers and the disabled and otherwise "unamerican".
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Is there any future recourse you can imagine outside of sanction or disbarment? e.g. other legal liability, criminal under some type of assault/harassment statute?
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i don't really think they have to be "convinced"

they just have to get their hmmmms🤔 and ummmmms🤔 and talking points in order
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Do you think they'll go along? There are plenty of avenues to take here (Groups being excluded in the amendment in thr first place, Birth Tourism being a thing). I fully expect Alito to go all in on Great Replacement rhetoric during the hearings.
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I hope the state bar complaints are being filed!
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Thank you for doing this work
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You say "countless" but that really means hundreds of thousands or millions, correct?
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Thank you so much for your work for society and the profession. Much needed and much appreciated.
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I don't think that word means what you think it means. Those aren't law profs, those are *regime* profs.
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