In N.Y. Post and on Podcast, Professor Chin Discusses High Court Birthright Citizenship Arguments

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin spoke to the New York Post on May 14, the eve of Supreme Court oral arguments regarding the Trump administration's attempts to invalidate lower-court injunctions against the president's executive order ending birthright citizenship.

“This is a funny test case, because the underlying law is so clear and because it’s sort of the same exact issue all across the country,” Chin told the Post. 

Chin spoke to Background Briefing podcast host Ian Masters the next day, after oral arguments.

“I didn’t hear anything from any of the justices that indicated … they were sympathetic to (Trump’s) decision,” Chin said. “No justice seems to say that maybe the Trump administration had a point, and the nature of the 14th Amendment had been misunderstood since 1868.”

Chin is a Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law and holder of the Edward L. Barrett Jr. Endowed Chair at UC Davis School of Law. He is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.