I have filed a critical brief before the US Supreme Court in one of the most important cases to come before it in years – whether the Constitution automatically grants citizenship to children born on US soil to parents here illegally or temporarily.
It doesn’t, and I have urged the Supreme Court to make that clear in a crucial case set for argument next week.
This is an example of why the lawfare left has targeted me at the federal level and in three states. They want to take me out of the game from participating in crucial cases like this because my scholarship is impeccable and because I win.
The withering lawfare assault I have endured has taken a toll. I’ve had to expend over $1.5 million so far defending myself as I fight to preserve my livelihood and very freedom.
My defense fund has nearly been emptied and I urgently need the support of good people like you to continue my fight against the lawfare left. Will you step forward today with a generous donation?
On May 15th, the US Supreme Court has scheduled oral argument on three consolidated cases arising from President Trump’s very appropriate and much needed Executive Order on birthright citizenship. Essentially Mr. Trump, my former client, adopted the position I have long advocated that a child born to a mother here illegally or temporarily and whose father is not a US Citizen does not automatically have US citizenship.
The immediate issue before the court is whether district court judges have the power to issue nationwide injunctions blocking a President from implementing his directives. This is what activist judges are doing all over the country on a host of issues, and what district court judges did in Washington, Maryland and Massachusetts in blocking the Executive Order at issue in this consolidated case.
I have argued that the Supreme Court should block these injunctions from taking effect. Hopefully, they will establish clear guidelines that will impact all such nationwide injunctions, limiting district court rulings to the parties who are directly before the local judge and stopping nationwide injunctions from issuing.
But beyond that, my brief also addresses the merits of the birthright citizenship issue because there’s nothing to prevent the Supreme Court from using this case to settle this issue definitively. And they should.
As a leading constitutional scholar on these issues, I have reminded the Supreme Court that, contrary to the rhetoric of the left and many in the liberal media’s commentariat class, the Constitution requires that such persons be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore owing the US a complete and immediate allegiance.
If their non-citizen parents owe an allegiance to a foreign country, then the child also owes an allegiance and cannot be a US citizen simply by birth. Only children born in the US whose parents have a complete and total allegiance to the United States are eligible for citizenship at birth.
I back up my position through extensive legal scholarship, citing such matters as previously decided US Supreme Court cases, various legal treatises, the debates of our founders, the American Revolution’s rejection of feudal doctrines, observations on Antebellum Law and the operation of the 1866 Civil Rights Act in relation to the 14th Amendment.
I won’t take time to review all the arguments I have presented, but you can read the brief yourself if you’d like by going to the Supreme Court website and search its docket for Cases 24A884-886.
My life’s work in the law has been focused on upholding the Constitution and ensuring that it is properly interpreted and applied as the drafters intended, not as activist judges and actors wish it to be. It’s this work that has made me a primary target of the lawfare left, who want to disbar me from practicing law and imprison me for my advocacy of these constitutional principles.
In addition to the over $1.5 million I’ve already had to expend, I will need to raise at least that much more going forward to defeat the left’s withering attacks. That is why I turn to you today to ask for an EMERGENCY DONATION of $25, $50, $100, $250 or $500 or more to help me continue to fight, for my freedom and for our beloved Constitution.
Thank you for whatever you can do to help.
Sincerely,
John Eastman
Constitutional Scholar
Former Attorney for President Donald Trump