Among the worst of his quickly-lengthening list of outrages, say critics, is Donald Trump’s vow to end “birthright citizenship”, by which women who enter the U.S. illegally and give birth there claim U.S. citizenship for their child, themselves and, in many cases, other family members. While the Constitutional jurisprudence is admittedly complicated, John Daniel Davidson writes in the Federalist that Trump is right to try to stamp out this “pernicious” practice.
Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.
