CITIZENSHIP/IMMIGRATION/KELLYANE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, called President Donald Trump’s proposal to end birthright citizenship ‘unconstitutional’ in a Washington Post op-ed he co-wrote Tuesday [10-30-18]…George Conway’s stance contrasted with that of his wife. Kellyanne Conway told reporters Tuesday that ‘there are constitutional scholars that say the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted, and, actually, the Supreme Court has never gave a solid opinion on this.’ Trump told Axios in an interview released Tuesday morning that he was in the process of ending birthright citizenship through an executive order…The 14th Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1868, says that ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.’ The lawyers argue that the 14th Amendment arose in the aftermath of the Dred Scott Supreme Court case in 1857, which ruled that slaves and their children could not be US citizens.”
–Caroline Kelly, “Kellyanne Conway’s husband calls Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship ‘unconstitutional’ in op-ed,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, October 30, 2018 9:42 pm