On Podcast, Professor Chin Discusses High Court Oral Argument in Birthright Citizenship Case

On May 15, Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin spoke to Background Briefing podcast host Ian Masters about that day’s Supreme Court oral argument regarding efforts to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship and the meriets of lower court injunctions to block the order.

“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.