Please join the Center for American Progress for a special presentation:
March 31, 2011, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Admission is free.
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About this event:
On the first day of the 112th Congress, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) introduced legislation in the House of Representatives seeking to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to "clarify" which classes of U.S.-born children are citizens of the United States at birth. Rep. King’s bill reflects his assertion that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee citizenship at birth for U.S.-born children of temporary or undocumented immigrants. House Judiciary Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) agrees, and has declared his intention to hold hearings on the subject. Federal legislators are not the only ones to get into the mix. On January 5, a group of state legislators launched their own challenge to the 14th Amendment at a press conference in Washington where they announced their plans to pass state laws that would ultimately trigger a Supreme Court ruling on the issue.
On March 31, 2011, the American Constitution Society and the Center for American Progress will bring together leading thinkers to discuss current challenges to birthright citizenship and provide historical perspective to the debate about what the 14th Amendment guarantees.
Featured panelists:
Elizabeth Wydra, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center
Garrett Epps, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
James C. Ho, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher; former Solicitor General of Texas
Linda Chavez, Chairman, Center for Equal Opportunity
Moderator:
Sam Fulwood III, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.
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Washington, D.C. 20005
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