….from the Hill…
A federal judge in Utah ruled Thursday that American Samoans are U.S. citizens at birth and should be given passports that reflect the fact, CNN reports.
“This court is not imposing ‘citizenship by judicial fiat.’ The action is required by the mandate of the Fourteenth Amendment as construed and applied by Supreme Court precedent,” U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups wrote.
The Supreme Court in 2016 decline to hear a case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in which the court ruled that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on those born in American Samoa.
The Utah District Court isn’t bound by the D.C. District Court ruling, which is why Waddoups was able to issue a different decision.
People born in other U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Marianas, are granted U.S. citizenship at birth. American Samoa, which became a U.S. territory in 1900, has long been the exception….
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So is Tulsi Gabbard (a Samoan) a natural born citizen ? Were her parents ?
Gabbard’s dad was born in Hawaii….
Mother in Indiana ….
She is one of 5 ….
Of course it doesn’t matter where she was born with her parents…
THAT is something Trump has threatened to take away that won’t happen….