My Dumb State, South Carolina: Attorney General, Alan Wilson, Wants To Amend The Fourteenth Amendment – Part 3 (Supreme Court)

Attorney General Alan Wilson defends Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order in Supreme Court brief - South Carolina Attorney General

March 28, 2025

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court of the United States, alongside 20 other state attorneys general, supporting President Trump’s Executive Order that clarifies the limits of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. He asserted that it is beyond time for the courts to set the record straight with a legal clarification about who is entitled to U.S. citizenship.

“For 150 years, the 14th Amendment has been misapplied, granting birthright citizenship to those never intended by the drafters,” said Attorney General Wilson. “This amendment was rightfully designed to bestow citizenship on emancipated slaves, but since then, it has been misinterpreted to incentivize the ridiculous notion that someone can come to the United States in the dead of night, drop a child like an anchor, and suddenly that child is granted citizenship forever. This is an opportunity for the Supreme Court to correct this long-standing misinterpretation. The Citizenship Clause was never meant to reward illegal immigration or birth tourism. This order realigns the 14th Amendment with its original intent and ensures that American citizenship is protected for those who have a rightful claim.”

The brief affirms that President Trump’s Executive Order, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” is constitutional and necessary to curb the incentives currently driving illegal immigration and birth tourism. It does that by mandating that a child born in the United States can only be granted U.S. citizenship if at least one parent is a lawful permanent resident.  The brief emphasizes that the drafters never intended the Constitution’s Citizenship Clause to grant automatic citizenship to individuals born to non-citizen parents.

Under the Biden administration, Americans saw firsthand how one administration’s misinterpretation of the Constitution can create one of the biggest national security crises in our nation’s history. Years of kicking the can down the road have led to a huge strain on state resources, with states paying billions of dollars for the costs of illegal immigration each year. Whether it’s for education, welfare, or healthcare, states are paying exorbitant amounts of money each year to keep up.

The states joining South Carolina in the brief are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

You can read the full brief here

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