Attorney Alan Dershowitz predicted Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive action on birthright citizenship might not survive legal challenges.
Trump issued an executive order tightening the grounds on which citizenship would be granted to those born in the United States Monday, shortly after being sworn into office. Dershowitz said that while he felt birthright citizenship was “a dumb idea,” he believed Trump couldn’t alter it through executive action. (RELATED: Biden’s Sweeping Last-Minute Pardons Could Come Back To Haunt His Family, Alan Dershowitz Says)
“He said he was gonna end birthright citizenship. I think birthright citizenship was a dumb idea. If I were writing a constitution, I don’t think I would put birthright citizenship in the constitution,” Dershowitz, an outspoken critic of the efforts to prosecute Trump at the state and federal levels,…
