Because when it comes to birthright citizenship, the virtue signaling and armchair excoriation is not just silly -- it's dead wrong on the law. Trump's Jan. 20 executive order on birthright citizenship is legally sound and fundamentally just.

After the Civil War, the Constitution was amended to consider every baby born in the US an American. Soon that may change.

The White House signaled plans for executive orders, including ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.