The Summit Club 1901 Sixth Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
Does the 14th Amendment Provide U.S. Citizenship to Every Baby Born in the U.S. to Non-Citizen Parents?
Birmingham Lawyers Chapter
Speaker:
- Gerald Walpin - author of The Supreme Court vs. The Constitution (Significance Press 2013), currently serves on the Second Circuit Judicial Council Committee On Civic Education.
Gerald Walpin will address the following issues: in determining whether the Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to a baby born to an illegal or transient foreign Mother, must that question be decided by the words of that Amendment, what the authors of that Amendment intended, and what the Supreme Court has said about its meaning. Those desiderata require the conclusion that mere birth within this Country to such parents does not make the baby a U.S. citizen. Birth within the United States must be coupled with legal domicile in and allegiance to the United States, and not to a foreign government.
Speaker:
- Gerald Walpin - author of The Supreme Court vs. The Constitution (Significance Press 2013), currently serves on the Second Circuit Judicial Council Committee On Civic Education.
Gerald Walpin will address the following issues: in determining whether the Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to a baby born to an illegal or transient foreign Mother, must that question be decided by the words of that Amendment, what the authors of that Amendment intended, and what the Supreme Court has said about its meaning. Those desiderata require the conclusion that mere birth within this Country to such parents does not make the baby a U.S. citizen. Birth within the United States must be coupled with legal domicile in and allegiance to the United States, and not to a foreign government.
Mr. Walpin served from 2007-09 as the Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service (the Domestic Peace Corps), where he was responsible for ensuring against fraud, inefficiency and waste in service agencies, including Vista, AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve, etc. A prominent New York attorney, Walpin was nominated by President George W. Bush, confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office on January 8, 2007.
A New York City native, Walpin graduated from College of the City of New York in 1952. He earned his law degree, cum laude, in 1955 from Yale Law School, where he was managing editor of the Yale Law Journal. From 1957-60, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General. His career included a five-year stint as Chief of Prosecutions for the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he successfully prosecuted a number of high-profile cases. He spent more than 40 years as senior partner and, more recently, of counsel to New York-based Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Mr. Walpin is included in the published compilation “The Best Lawyers in America,” and was honored with the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for outstanding professionalism as an attorney and for mentoring younger lawyers.
When: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Where: The Summit Club, 1901 Sixth Avenue North
Cost: $15 for lunch
(Please pay at the door and make checks payable to “The Federalist Society”)
RSVP: by Monday, January 11, to Carolyn Adkins at[email protected] or 205-521-8687.