The Root: Don't Tamper With The 14th Amendment

Via NPR: Tampering with the law that guaranteed black Americans their citizenship is not just bad politics; it is downright low. It's perhaps a short walk from trashing the legacy of Thurgood Marshall during the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings to the Republican leadership's latest affront to the civil rights history of this country. But the push to open hearings on the 14th Amendment, in order to challenge the birthright-citizenship provisions of the landmark Civil War amendment, marks a new low.