Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post/Getty Images If a person is subject to the jurisdiction of both the United States and Mexico, are they subject to the jurisdiction of the United States? The answer — logically, linguistically, and legally — is yes. And that will spell near-certain doom for Donald Trump ’s effort to decimate our century-and-a-half-year-old constitutional principle known as birthright citizenship , which goes before the U.S. Supreme Court for oral argument on Wednesday.

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