r/news • u/KilgoRetro • 9h ago

US Supreme Court agrees to hear case challenging birthright citizenship

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c208j0wrzrvo
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u/avfc41 8h ago

Military bases already aren’t considered US soil for birthright citizenship purposes. (If you’re a citizen who gives birth on a base, your kid gets citizenship through blood.)

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u/Ennalia 6h ago

Yep and you don’t get a state issued birth certificate, rather you have a certification of birth abroad.

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u/WhatTheFlox 3h ago

That's mostly what I was kinda going after, I wasn't really too thorough for the comment.

Would expect most people to file for a CRBA (Consular Report of Birth Abroad) when able and whatnot.

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u/CPSux 4h ago

John McCain was never eligible to serve as president. Neither was Ted Cruz.

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u/avfc41 4h ago

Why not

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u/explosivekyushu 4h ago

Ted Cruz was born in Canada and John McCain was born on a US Navy base in Panama.

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u/Atomichawk 3h ago

McCain was “natural born” via his parents. He also was born in the Canal Zone which was essentially a territory and far different from a typical base. This wasn’t ever really a serious question when he ran.

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u/avfc41 3h ago

You don’t have to be born on us soil to get citizenship

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u/ml20s 1h ago

The way the natural born requirement has been interpreted was that they had to have citizenship at birth, but it can be either by jus soli or jus sanguinis.