ACLU to SCOTUS: Everyone’s the same… except when they’re not

Any attempt to conflate allegiance to one’s home nation with obeying the laws of a nation where one is a guest is specious;

A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--April 4, 2026

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After listening to Solicitor General John Sauer’s matter-of-fact argument against birthright citizenship, the introductory statement by Cecillia Wang, Esq. to the Supreme Court was jaw-dropping in its pompous presumption – “Ask any American what our citizenship rule is and they'll tell you, everyone born here is a citizen alike.”

Most reading this will vehemently disagree with Wang’s claim and, frankly wonder what point she was making

Most reading this will vehemently disagree with Wang’s claim and, frankly wonder what point she was making. The first thought that struck home was if she was expecting to shame the justices into head-nodding affirmation of a notion that is blatantly untrue. Was she applying woke peer pressure on the august panel seated before her?

Because that is exactly what it sounded like. That if every justice didn’t flatly agree with her all-encompassing assertion, they would prove themselves unAmerican.

The statement in itself was a manipulation of language (check her use of ‘manipulation,’ pg. 82/83 of the oral arguments) to impose a belief upon Americans that all agree upon this concept. Wang undermined her overall argument from the outset with a false claim.

In contrast to Gen. Sauer’s presentation, most of Wang’s argument was couched in equivocal references as this example: “Thirty years after ratification, this Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment embodies the English common law rule. Virtually everyone born on U.S. soil is subject to its jurisdiction and is a citizen.”

Again, an overarching application of citizenship, Wang invoked “extraterritoriality” to make her case about “the jurisdiction thereof” clause. Instead of properly separating the understanding of jurisdiction between the country where one is standing and the country where one is allegiant, she lumps it all together.

Wang: “...all of the exceptions involve........

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