On birthright citizenship and our evolving jurisdiction

As today’s NR editorial observes, it will be necessary to get the Supreme Court’s cooperation – i.e., to do what used to be the justices’ job of applying the law as it was understood when adopted – in order to restore the Fourteenth Amendment’s denial of birthright citizenship to children whose parents owe allegiance to a country other than the United States. That may depend on what “new insight” the justices believe they have on what, in recent years, they have construed as the quite elastic concept of jurisdiction.