“The purpose of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was to overturn the Dred Scott case, not to bestow citizenship on those present in the U.S. against the people’s will as expressed in law.
“The executive order will be litigated until the Supreme Court decides the question, which it has never decided, of whether children born to illegal aliens get constitutionally-mandated citizenship. The framers of the amendment clearly did not believe so.
“[Newly appointed senator] Ashley Moody could have a chance to confirm a conservative jurist to replace a liberal justice. That might be necessary to get the desired ruling – I’m not sure there are currently five votes on the Supreme Court for the notion that the 14th Amendment does not give birthright citizenship to illegals.
“If there aren’t five votes then shutting down illegal alien birthright citizenship would require an amendment to the Constitution itself, which would be unlikely to get enacted as blue states would almost certainly refuse to ratify it.” – Ron DeSantis, speaking at a roundtable on enforcing Trump’s deportation edict.