From Saturday’s LTE section comes an insufferably smug entry regarding birthright citizenship, asserting that the SCOTUS dissenters are ignoramuses, incapable of reading the plain text: “All persons born … in the United States … are citizens.” [Ellipses contained in the original]
The writer then absurdly claims that the amendment's authors “explicitly rejected” the limitations (jurisdiction and residence) that are contained in the very text that he hid from view. Two can play that ellipsis game. Let’s add just one more, leaving this: “All persons … are citizens of the United States.” That should please the writer and his fellow travelers.
Wrapping up, I do wish that the editors would exercise better judgment in selecting letters to print.
Jerrod Mason
Green Valley
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