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Birthright citizenship: Hintopoulos, Harlan II, and “Joltin’ Joe” – mid-century elements of American greatness worth remembering on the eve of Barbara

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Birthright citizenship: Hintopoulos, Harlan II, and “Joltin’ Joe” – mid-century elements of American greatness worth remembering on the eve of Barbara “Of course.” “No one wants to change that.” As mid-20th century American leaders both on and off the Supreme Court pondered America’s place in a brutish world, these are the words they used, unhesitatingly and repeatedly, to affirm their loyalty to,...
The strongest version of this narrative is its rigorous historical and legal defense of birthright citizenship as a foundational American principle. The article effectively demonstrates how mid-20th-century legal and political leaders, across party lines, treated the citizenship of U.S.-born children as self-evident, even when their parents were undocumented. By centering *Hintopoulos v. Shaughnessy*, it highlights a moment of clarity where the Supreme Court, Congress, and executive branch all a...