Jackson rebukes Thomas over his birthright citizenship dissent

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5. Never understood . . .

the crazy right wing argument that undocumented individuals were not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" at the same time those same crazies are supporting the exercise of governmental power to round those people up, deprive them of their rights and liberties and otherwise exert the full range of governmental power against them. The clause was intended to exclude diplomats (who, for example, if caught doing a crime are immune from prosecution) and sadly, Native Americans, who were viewed as sovereign nations within the territorial limits of the United States. I know expecting consistency from conservatives seems pretty silly, but you think even they would be embarrassed about talking out of both sides of their big mouths.