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I'm not a legal scholar, but the conditions in the 14th amendment seem about as plain as any element of our legal stratum can get,

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States...

The exclusion for diplomats' children makes sense to me, since they're not subject to US jurisdiction, but does this also mean that children being newly disqualified from Birthright Citizenship are similarly not subject to US laws?

Or is this just an exercise in raw political power, where the Supreme Court is expected to dig deep, to ignore the plain meaning of the constitution in favor of a preferred contemporary interpretation of, "the intent?"

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There is no reading of the US Constitution or any statutory law that grants immunity to non-citizens, other than the limited circumstance of diplomatic or consular immunity, which you note in your question.

It does not matter if someone is a citizen, non-citizen, newly disqualified, or long-time disqualified.

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