Samarth Desai

@YaleLawSch formerly @ConstitutionCtr @harvard

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

Birthright citizenship: hard questions – and the best answers – for Trump’s challengers @SCOTUSblog @Akhil_Reed_Amar https://t.co/I0Rjyzskkq

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

Birthright citizenship: 20 questions for the solicitor general @SCOTUSblog @Akhil_Reed_Amar https://t.co/3mYIsZwqhX

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

Birthright citizenship: reading the text and sidestepping the parent trap https://t.co/q80O24gUqi

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

Samarth Desai on Originalism in the Birthright Citizenship Litigation
Michael Ramsey https://t.co/4pCaqCHZ5m

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

These days, everyone wants to be an originalist. Alas, in the birthright-citizenship case, the Trump administration and its allies are flunking Originalism 101: leaning on private letters, mangling old caselaw, turning a blind eye to mountains of contrary historical evidence, and distorting the 14th Amendment’s plain text. @SCOTUSblog https://t.co/xonoQjHOU8

[Matt Franck @MatthewJFranck]

Excellent work by Yale Law student @samarthpd on birthright citizenship, @SCOTUSblog — https://t.co/ppI8SfXenH

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

Two originalist touchstones – the soil and the flag – cleanly explain both the scope and the limits of the Constitution’s grand birthright-citizenship guarantee. @SCOTUSblog https://t.co/HTm570eE4M

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

When a baby is born, if American soil lies below and an American flag flies above, that baby is a birthright citizen. This originalist rule is clear and clean: look down, and then look up. @Akhil_Reed_Amar @SCOTUSblog https://t.co/5D4fdo4yEJ

[Jed Shugerman @jedshug]

7/ Steve Calabresi in @VolokhC:
"@samarthpd @YaleLawSch 2L has a devastating response to @RandyEBarnett & @ilan_wurman."

"I totally agree" w/ @samarthpd
https://t.co/u21gyYVovV

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

Professor Akhil Amar, Professor Steve Calabresi, and Dr. Andy Lipka discuss my birthright-citizenship piece and additional arguments at 48:30. @amaricas_const https://t.co/h9NgT1y715

[Howard Bashman @howappealing]

“President Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship is Unconstitutional; Trump is doing many great things but trying to get rid of birthright citizenship is not one of them”: Steven Calabresi has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” https://t.co/1hj4UI3Bq5

[Volokh Conspiracy @VolokhC]

[Steven Calabresi] President Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship is Unconstitutional https://t.co/4e1u0wiFyv

[Jed Shugerman @jedshug]

It’s a broad consensus:
Steven Calabresi posted & “totally” endorsed @YaleLawSch 2L Samarth Desai's strong arguments against @RandyEBarnett & @ilan_wurman (with a link to my original post).
@VolokhC @reason
https://t.co/u21gyYUQGn

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

President Trump's birthright-citizenship executive order is illegal and unconstitutional, and no "allegiance-for-protection theory" can save it. https://t.co/OqXx2K01mo

[Howard Bashman @howappealing]

“Was Griffin’s Case the Backdrop Against Which Congress Legislated the Enforcement Act of 1870?” Samarth Desai has this guest post at the “Balkinization” blog. https://t.co/2lvkBxOnFD

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

Thank you @tribelaw for sharing my Balkinization piece identifying the key problems with the “Griffin’s Case + Enforcement Act = liquidation” theory. https://t.co/DuzpUDRi8n

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

If Justice Kavanaugh’s Feb 8 idea that Congress legislated on the basis of Griffin’s Case (& that its doing so “fixed” Sec 3’s meaning) took root with other justices, the historical record should dissuade them. Read this in addition to Mark Graber’s piece:
https://t.co/tT5ePY75ti

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

If Justice Kavanaugh’s Feb 8 idea that Congress legislated on the basis of Griffin’s Case (& that its doing so “fixed” Sec 3’s meaning) took root with other justices, the historical record should dissuade them. Read this in addition to Mark Graber’s piece:
https://t.co/tT5ePY75ti

[Samarth Desai @samarthpd]

Was Griffin’s Case the Backdrop Against Which Congress Legislated the Enforcement Act of 1870? https://t.co/DuzpUDRi8n