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    Legal scholars dismiss Trump's plan to challenge 'birthright citizenship'

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Oct 30, 2018 3 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Legal scholars were quick to dismiss President Donald Trump's plan to reject "birthright citizenship" by executive order as more of a political stunt than a serious challenge.

    That's because the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court and federal law all say that children born within this country are citizens at birth, regardless of the citizenship status of their parents.

    In 1866, the Reconstruction Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act and said "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any

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