NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Attorneys General from half of the United States, led by those from Tennessee and Iowa, filed a brief with the Supreme Court Friday challenging the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed the amicus brief to urge the Court to "clarify that the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause does not provide automatic citizenship to everyone born in the United States."

"The idea that citizenship is guaranteed to everyone born in the United States doesn't square with the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment or the way many government officials and legal analysts understood the law when it was adopted after the Civil War," AG Skrmetti said. "If you look at the law at the time, citizenship attached to kids whose parents

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