Wong Kim Ark

I'm glad the first court case on birthright citizenship has been decided in the obviously correct way, and by a Reagan-appointed judge, no less. 

I've been meaning to write about this topic, but there were just so many pieces of Trump dreck being spewed in the past week I've been overwhelmed, so almost none have made it here.

But I wanted to include a link to at least one article about the 1898 Wong Kim Ark case, which is the case law basis for birthright citizenship, arising from the 14th Amendment. 

As I suspected, it was the same Supreme Court that found in favor of his citizenship that had just two years earlier found that Black people were inherently inferior in Plessy v. Ferguson. So it's not as if this was a progressive court. But even they (in a 6–2 vote) "could not argue against the plain language of the 14th Amendment." 

So our current administration is worse than the Plessy court. This is not a shock, I know; as I've said they want to roll back not just the 20th century, but well back into the 19th. Samuel Alito seems particularly fond of the 17th century.

Remember Wong Kim Ark, and honor his place in American history.