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The Supreme Court just came one vote away from a constitutional catastrophe

US President Donald Trump, right, greets Brett Kavanaugh, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, during a ceremonial swearing-in event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images There is no question in US law that is clearly or more firmly settled than the question of whether people born in the United States are citizens of this country. The Fourteenth Amendment states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” “All persons” means al...